Artwork Description:
I took this photographwhen I was 14, in Newport News, Virginia, 16 miles fromLangley Air Force Base. Captain Schirra was one of America's first 7 Astronauts. He was neighbor of mine. I could see the back of his house from my front window. He piloted the 6 orbit Sigma 7 Mercury spacecraft, two months after I took this photograph of him. He is the only Astronaut to have flown Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft. In 1959 he flew F-4 jets. In 1968-71 I worked on F-4 jets. We were in the Navy. My father, Charles Bert Ogle, was an Air Force pilot [B-26, B-57b, KC-131 ].