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2024

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Ed Dempsey said:
The straps that connected the Mercury spacecraft heat shield to the main body of the vehicle, after landing bag deployment, are clearly visible in this shot, as NASA personnel and Kearsarge crewmen, seat the recovered FAITH 7 on the handling dolly. At this point, the bag has emptied of sea water and is, again, full of air, as it was when the spacecraft splashed down. The flotation collar ( marked UDT ) is also being removed. The faint white square deliniates the hatch, which is still sealed.

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.