One of those new training apparatuses infamously stuck with Glenn — the Gimbal Rig. “I guess you could call it the weirdest training we ever did,” Glenn said in a NASA Glenn Research Center ...

The official Space Camp’s campus in Huntsville, Alabama houses three of these trainers, which are toned-down versions of the gimbal Rig mercury astronaut trainer that NASA used in 1960.

The Gimbal Rig, formally called MASTIF or Multiple Axis ... to pass all three phases of the Mercury Astronaut Program, but NASA rules stipulated that only military test pilots could become ...

"We really hated that gimbal rig!" The seven original Project Mercury astronauts, and the 13 women of Mercury 13, trained in the rig in 1960. Watch the rig in action, below. NASA no longer uses ...

NASA Glenn's Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility, or Gimbal Rig, was one of the many facilities where the seven astronauts trained for their missions. After three years of training ...

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, the Gimbal Rig, formally known as the MASTIF or Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility, was engineered to simulate the tumbling and rolling ...

Undergoing the same battery of tests as NASA’s original Mercury Seven astronauts ... And for 45 minutes, she piloted a machine known as the gimbal rig, a gyroscopic, vomit-inducing spaceflight ...

"We really hated that gimbal rig!" The seven original Project Mercury astronauts, and the 13 women of Mercury 13, trained in the rig in 1960. Watch the rig in action, below. NASA no longer uses the ...