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- Subject is exactly "Project Mercury (U.S.)"
[Technician assisting astronaut Alan B. Shepard with his spacesuit prior to Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7) launch]
![[Technician assisting astronaut Alan B. Shepard with his spacesuit prior to Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7) launch]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/0ce72c32d9246e751e2e94850637d369.jpg "[Technician assisting astronaut Alan B. Shepard with his spacesuit prior to Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7) launch]")
Photograph of a technician assisting astronaut Alan B. Shepard with his spacesuit prior to the Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7) launch, Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 5, 1961.
Astro affairs / Organization of 1st Astronaut Office [notebook belonging to Deke Slayton]
![Astro affairs / Organization of 1st Astronaut Office [notebook belonging to Deke Slayton]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/783cff8b34cd6ce75aecd2d95840732e.jpg "Astro affairs / Organization of 1st Astronaut Office [notebook belonging to Deke Slayton]")
Spiral-bound, "steno"-style notebook of handwritten notes by astronaut Deke Slayton during the Mercury Program, circa 1958-1963. The contents of the notebook illustrate the organizational structure of the department, problems that needed to be…