Mercury Project
Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., one of the original seven astronauts for Mercury Project selected by NASA on April 27, 1959. The MA-9 mission, boosted by the Mercury-Atlas launch vehicle, was the last flight of the Mercury Project. The Faith 7 spacecraft orbited the Earth 22 times in 1-1/2 days.
- Date
- 1959-04-27
- Collection
- MSFC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Mercury Project" (1959-04-27). NASA/MSFC. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/8772556Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 23907.
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