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Sigma 7, Astronaut Wally Schirra, 1962

Astronaut Schirra climbs into his Sigma 7 spacecraft. Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8) was the fifth US manned space mission, part of NASA's Mercury program. Astronaut Walter M. Schirra, Jr., orbited the Earth six times in the Sigma 7 spacecraft on October 3, 1962, in a nine-hour flight focused mainly on technical evaluation rather than on scientific experimentation. This was the longest U.S. manned orbital flight yet achieved in the Space Race, though well behind the several-day record set by the Soviet Vostok 3 earlier in the year. It confirmed the Mercury spacecraft's durability ahead of the one-day Mercury-Atlas 9 mission that followed in 1963.
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Sigma 7, Astronaut Wally Schirra, 1962
Astronaut Schirra climbs into his Sigma 7 spacecraft. Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8) was the fifth US manned space mission, part of NASA's Mercury program. Astronaut Walter M. Schirra, Jr., orbited the Earth six times in the Sigma 7 spacecraft on October 3, 1962, in a nine-hour flight focused mainly on technical evaluation rather than on scientific experimentation. This was the longest U.S. manned orbital flight yet achieved in the Space Race, though well behind the several-day record set by the Soviet Vostok 3 earlier in the year. It confirmed the Mercury spacecraft's durability ahead of the one-day Mercury-Atlas 9 mission that followed in 1963.
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4500 x 2921 px | 37.6 MB
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38.1 x 24.7 cm | 15.0 x 9.7 in (300 dpi)