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66 photos and 1 illustration tagged mercuryatlas6, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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• ma6
• nasa
• atlas109d
• atlas
• johnglenn
• generaldynamics
• friendship7
• mercuryatlas
• ma
• mercury
• aviation
• astronaut
• aerospace
• spaceflight
• projectmercury
• nationalaeronauticsandspaceadministration
• mercuryproject
• mannedspaceflight
• c133
• aircraft
• missile
• glenn
• capecanaveral
• convair

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• SDASM Archives 63 photos & illustrations
• NASA on The Commons 4 photos & illustrations

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Atlas Collection Image

from SDASM Archives

• Andrew Granston said:

  Atlas 109D launched John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth. The re-entry of the missile was seen in Brazil and, debris from Atlas 109D was found in South Africa. This incident was described in Project Blue Book Case 7811. See the following post, and the links therewithin: www.satobs.org/seesat/Mar-2014/0110.html

Atlas on trailer--'Missile Moves binder; 109D; 11-29-61; Merc(ury?); move to Miramar

from SDASM Archives

• Jose Herculano said:

  C-133 aircraft.

Atlas air transport--'Missile Moves binder; 109D; 11-29-61; move to Miramar NAS (Naval Air Station)

from SDASM Archives

• Ernie Viskupic said:

  The aircraft pictured is a Douglas C-133B-DL Cargomaster. The side opening "petal" doors (the doors with the yellow bands) of the B model were installed to facilitate the loading of ICBMs such as the Atlas shown. This aircraft was sent to storage in June of 1971, then scrapped by 1974.