Blue Aircraft Flightsuit. Size 38 regular, with NASA "meatball" cloth emblem and multiple zippered pockets with black reinforced borders. Astronaut Gordon Cooper tells this story, "When we were selected as astronauts in 1959, little effort was made to create a standard flying suit for us. Our classic photo in front of the F-106 jet shows how we had scrounged around to get flight equipment from the various armed services. The dark blue NASA flight suit was mainly a result of the publication of that one photograph". [With:] Five NASA black and white photos showing various Mercury astronauts wearing this type of flight suit design.