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Identifier
F03_002_02
Date
July 1960
Description
This black and white text is located on the backside of the prior image. The transcription describes the image and context of the imagery. NASA Photo No. 60-MA1-8
Physical Description
black and white photograph
Keywords
Project Mercury (U.S.), Space flight, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Press releases, Space vehicles, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Fla.)
Rights
This material is free from copyright under Sections 101 and 105 of the United States Copyright Act.
Publisher
Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections
Repository
Recommended Citation
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), "005 Back Side of Photograph Damaged Capsule Reconstruction" (1960). Project Mercury Images. 5.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/mercury/5
Language
eng
Transcription
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Photograph NASA PHOTO NO. 60-MA-1-8 Subject: Damaged Capsule This is a reconstruction of the Project Mercury spacecraft which slammed into the water going about 400 miles an hour last July 29, 1960, during a Mercury-Atlas suborbital flight test. Spacecraft systems operated to impact. A still unresolved malfunction occurred after one minute of flight. Pieces of the spacecraft were recovered about 10 miles off the Cape. In this test, the spacecraft was not equipped as in current tests. The escape rocket can with an escape rocket system pull the spacecraft free of the booster at the first indication of trouble.
Keywords
Project Mercury (U.S.), Space flight, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Press releases, Space vehicles, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Fla.)
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