mercurycapsule

50 photos and 1 illustration tagged mercurycapsule, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.

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2018

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Ed Dempsey said:
The faint white star, below the triangular window of this Mercury spacecraft, identifies it as FAITH 7, flown for a 22 orbit mission by Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr., in May of 1963.

Ed Dempsey said:
Recovery of the last Project Mercury manned spaceflight, Mercury Atlas 9 ( MA-9 ) by USS Kearsarge, in the Pacific. The faint white star, shown in other photos in this series, is the work of Cape Canaveral artist CeCe Bibi, who painted the "FAITH 7" insignia on Leroy Gordon Cooper's spacecraft. She also painted the names on the other orbital mission spacecraft of Project Mercury. The inflatable flotation ring was attached by divers and came into use after the loss of "LIBERTY BELL 7", on the MR-4 suborbital flight of July, 1961. On both MA-8 and MA-9, NASA wanted to have the spacecraft taken aboard the recovery ship with the astronaut still on board. This was to facilitate medical tests concerning the effects of weightlessness on returning astronauts.