NASA Photo ID: S61-02819          File Name: 10073575.jpg

Film Type: 8x10 b&w               Date Taken: 07/27/61

Title: Recovery of Mercury Astronaut Viril Grissom at end of MR-4 mission

Description:

Recovery of Mercury Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom at end of the 
Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4) mission. View shows the Marine helicopter pulling 
the astronaut from the water at the end of a recovery line. The  helicopter
had to abandon its attempts to recover the spacecraft.  Behind the  Marine
helicopter, a Navy helicopter prepares to assist.