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Photograph article dated September 22, 1961 partially reads, "The voice belongs to the man outside the steel chamber watching you through a heavy plate glass window: 'Okay. Take it straight up.' The noise you hear is a motor sucking oxygen out of the chamber. 'We are 10,000 feet now.' You are 'in flight' - sitting quietly in a small chamber that will never leave the ground. It's called the 'altitude test chamber.' It's located at Edwards Air Force Base, near Lancaster." Reporter Ralph Clark (right), gets set to "go up" eight miles. Adjusting oxygen mask is Maj. Ralph N. Richardson.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Clark, Ralph Valley Times (Firm)--Employees Reporters and reporting--California--Edwards Air Force Base Testing laboratories--California--Edwards Air Force Base Men--California--Edwards Air Force Base Oxygen--California--Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base (Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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