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3 unusual facts about McDonogh School


Neutral buoyancy simulation as a training aid

This capability for pressure suited subjects was initially developed in 1964 by utilizing an indoor swimming pool at a private school (McDonogh School near Baltimore).

Aldrin returned to the McDonogh facility and trained for the final version of his EVA.

Astronaut Gene Cernan first visited the McDonogh School indoor pool facility for post-mission evaluation of problems that he encountered during his Gemini IX-A EVA.


John Hanson Thomas Jerome

During Jerome's administration as Mayor of Baltimore, the McDonogh bequest was made to the City from the estate of John McDonogh, a bequest which would later result in the foundation of the McDonogh School.


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