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Recovery- Cooper smiles at recovery crew on Kearsarge
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Recovery- Cooper smiles at recovery crew on Kearsarge

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

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S63-07852 (16 May 1963)--- Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9) mission, has a smile for the recovery crew of the USS Kearsarge, after he is onboard from a successful 22-orbit mission of Earth in his spacecraft "Faith 7". Cooper is still sitting in his capsule, with his helmet off.

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Credit lineRecovery- Cooper smiles at recovery crew on Kearsarge. NASA/JSC, 1963-05-16. Public domain. ID: s63-07852.
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