Project Mercury: AWT Gimbaling Rig Showing Motion
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(December 16, 1959) This device is formally known as the MASTIF or Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility and is located in the Altitude Wind Tunnel. It was built at the Lewis Research Center, now John H. Glenn Research Center, and designed to train astronauts to regain control of a tumbling spacecraft. ..Image # : C1959-52233
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