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FROGMEN - MERCURY-ATLAS (MA)-9 - FAITH "7" - FLOTATION COLLAR - RECOVERY - PACIFIC
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FROGMEN - MERCURY-ATLAS (MA)-9 - FAITH "7" - FLOTATION COLLAR - RECOVERY - PACIFIC

NASA / JSC · 1963-05-16 · photograph (digital archive)

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S63-07707 (16 May 1963) --- A U.S. Navy frogman team attaches a flotation collar to the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9)"Faith 7" spacecraft during recovery operations in the central Pacific near Midway Island. The Mercury-Atlas spacecraft with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr., pilot, still inside, was hoisted aboard the USS Kearnage.

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Credit lineFROGMEN - MERCURY-ATLAS (MA)-9 - FAITH "7" - FLOTATION COLLAR - RECOVERY - PACIFIC. NASA/JSC, 1963-05-16. Public domain. ID: S63-07707.
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