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Mercury: impact studies
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Photographed on: 08 05 1958. -- Impact test conducted by Langley's Hydrodynamics Division. The Division conducted a series of impact studies with full scale and model capsules of the original capsule shape A. Joseph Shortal wrote (Vol. 3, p. 16): The basic design of the capsule was made by M.A. Faget and his coworkers at PARD during the winter of 1957-1958. It was natural, then, that extensive use was made of the facilities at Wallops during the development of the spacecraft.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineMercury: impact studies. NASA/LRC, 1958-09-07. Public domain. ID: LRC-1958-B701_P-03342.
