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Flight Readiness Firing (FRF) Test on Mercury-Atlas 4 at Launch Complex 14
Date: December 9, 1960
SDASM Archives: 44718323
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Flight Readiness Firing (FRF) Test on Mercury-Atlas 4 at Launch Complex 14
Date: December 9, 1960
SDASM Archives: 44718323
View of the recovery of the Mercury-Atlas 4 capsule (Mercury Spacecraft No. 8A) onto USS DECATUR (DD-936), after its successful mission.
Note: the extended antenna on top of the capsule.
Date: September 13, 1961
NASA ID: S61-03256, S61-03255
"The unmanned Mercury-Atlas (MA-4) capsule sits atop its Atlas launch vehicle. The successful orbital flight followed the MA-3 mission, which was aborted earlier this year."
Date: September 13, 1961
NASA ID: S90-27205
Earth observations of a shoreline taken from the Mercury-Atlas 4 (MA-4) spacecraft.
Date: September 13, 1961
NASA ID: S62-01285
The launch of the Mercury-Atlas 4 (MA-4) (MSC-8A/Atlas-88D) from LC-14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Date: September 13, 1961
NASA ID: S61-03567, S61-03249
(13 Sept. 1961) --- View of the recovery of the Mercury-Atlas 4 (MA-4) spacecraft which was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Sept. 13, 1961. Photo credit: NASA
NASA officials convene after the unmanned MA-4 mission, September 1961. Also, Gus is having a really nice dream about something.
Bob Gilruth after the unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 flight, September 1961.