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Wally Schirra Apollo 7 Leather Flight Jacket with F-106 Patch

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Wally Schirra's, one of the original 7 Mercury astronauts, Apollo 7 Leather Flight Jacket with an F-106 Patch from his times flying F-106B 59-0158 as part of the NASA Mercury training missions. He also flew it during a Chase mission during Rear Admiral (Ret) Alan Shepard Jr's sub-orbital space flight in Freedom 7.