Resource Type

[Photograph 2012.201.B1098.0153]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Like a giant arrow, the escape tower juts out from the Project Mercury space capsule on display Tuesday in the 200 block of W Main. The craft identical with one in which Col. John H. Glenn Jr. made his historic orbital flight Febuaray 20, was to leqve for Tulsa late Tuesday after a two day stay in Oklahoma City."
Date: July 3, 1962
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History