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Unidentified photographer
Project Mercury: AWT Gimbaling Rig Showing Motion
1959, 16 December
Black and white image
NASA
Image #: C1959-52233
LL/65667
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.
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