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Capsule, Mercury
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On September 9, 1959, NASA launched this unoccupied Mercury spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a suborbital flight that lasted 13 minutes. Its launch was the second in the Mercury program and the first using an Atlas booster. The flight helped NASA evaluate the booster, the new ablative heat shield, the capsule's flight dynamics and aerodynamic shape, and spacecraft recovery systems and procedures.
National Air and Space Museum’s own descriptionCredit lineCapsule, Mercury. NASA - Langley Research Center. National Air and Space Museum, Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. CC0.
