Release of Boilerplate Mercury Capsule Sequence
Photographed on: 12 16 58. -- L58-1083a caption: Sequenced pictures showing events from release of boilerplate Mercury capsule from C-130 airplane to opening of recovery parachute, December 1958. Photograph published in A New Dimension Wallops Island Flight Test Range: The First Fifteen Years by Joseph Shortal. A NASA publication, page 644.
- Date
- 1958-12-16
- Photographer / author
- NACA
- Collection
- LRC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Release of Boilerplate Mercury Capsule Sequence" (1958-12-16). NASA/LRC/NACA. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/LRC-1958-B701_P-01082Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 24264.
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