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Gordon Cooper and the Atlas rocket (4 views), Mercury Atlas 9, 11-15 May 1963

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Gordon Cooper and the Atlas rocket (4 views), Mercury Atlas 9, 11-15 May 1963
Gordon Cooper and the Atlas rocket (4 views), Mercury Atlas 9, 11-15 May 1963
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Four views of Gordon Cooper and the Atlas rocket just prior to the first one-day and last solo US space mission on board Faith 7, Mercury Atlas 9, 11-15 May 1963. Vintage gelatin silver prints on fibre-based paper, 20.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in), the first three with NASA captions on versos, the last with an unclassified stamp, (NASA Headquarters), (4).Footnote: The first photo was taken T minus four days before launch, the last three on launch day. Mercury Atlas 9 was launched from Cape Canaveral's Pad 14 on May 15, 1963 with a perigee of 161 km and an apogee of 267 km. Gordon Cooper's Faith 7 mission was the high point of Project Mercury and the first one-day mission and the last solo flight of the US space program. Faith 7 completed 22 orbits to evaluate effects of one day in space.
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Gordon Cooper and the Atlas rocket (4 views), Mercury Atlas 9, 11-15 May 1963

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