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Cooper climbs into capsule from NASA on The Commons uploaded May 2025
LOC-63-2690 from SDASM Archives uploaded October 2020
Atlas Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded January 2017
Atlas Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded January 2017
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Atlas Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded January 2017
Atlas Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded January 2017
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Atlas Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2016
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Atlas Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded September 2016

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JeffSFO said:
That banner is up there to celebrate that the ship in the photo, the aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge (CV-33), was the recovery vessel for two of NASA's Project Mercury 1-man missions. Astronaut Wally Schirra's mission was the MA 8 designation (stands for Mercury-Atlas 8, the 8th Atlas rocket used in both test and manned flights) and his spacecraft "Sigma 7" splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after orbiting the Earth 6 times in early October, 1962. The capsule, with him in it, were hoisted aboard the Kearsarge before he got out. Astronaut Gordon Cooper's mission was MA 9, respectively, and he was picked up by the Kearsarge mid-May the following Spring after completing 22 orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean aboard "Faith 7", which the final mission in the Project Mercury program. Further reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kearsarge_(CV-33) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Atlas_8 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Atlas_9 ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19630011968... ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19630012071...