Steve Jurvetson scores a Mercury spacesuit at auction

Maybe your kids could wear it for Halloween. Notice how small the suit is - those test pilots tended to be really really small dudes. We want to think of them as being big guys, but the military loved recruiting little guys that they shoved into early tanks and planes where ergonomics was at the bottom of the list. We saw Mercury spacesuits at the Smithsonian, and they looked like something from the childrens department.

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