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After Scott Carpenter’s science heavy Mercury-Atlas 7 flight, Nasa’s next mission would concentrate on the technical and engineering aspects of space travel. Mercury Atlas 8 became the third manned orbital flight of the Mercury program. The pilot selected was Walter M. Schirra, Jr., but most people called him Wally…
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Wally Schirra
Sigma 7
Lift-off
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Recovery
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In February of 1962, the United States put John Glenn into orbit. This prompted Soviet leadership to suddenly asked Chief Designer Korolev to launch the next space spectacular promptly. To make this mission truly spectacular the Soviets decided to launch a group flight of two Vostoks lasting up to four days in orbit.
Nikolaev
Popovich
Rolling Out
Vostok 4 on Pad
Popovich in Orbit
Nikolaev & Popovich
Mission Patch
By Dave
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After the successful completion of the Mercury-Atlas 6 flight that carried John Glenn into orbit, it was Scott Carpenter’s turn to pilot Mercury-Atlas 7, which he named Aurora 7. The mission was essentially a repeat of John Glenn’s 3 orbit mission, except the focus of this mission was on science. The full flight plan included the first study of liquids in weightlessness, Earth photography, star observations, Venus sightings and a multitude of other experiments…
Scott Carpenter
Scott Carpenter
Capsule Inspection
Boarding
Liftoff Aurora 7
Splashdown
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As part of the pre-Apollo preparations, NASA created the Ranger series of missions to take high-quality pictures of the Moon and transmit them back to Earth in real time…
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Ranger 4
Ranger 4 Launch
Ariel 1
Ariel 1 Launch
Telstar 1
Telstar Engineers
Goonhilly
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