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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

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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.)

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This material is free from copyright under Sections 101 and 105 of the United States Copyright Act.

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Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections

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Language

eng

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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.

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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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