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Mercury-Atlas 8
Atlas LV-3B · Human Exploration
1962Space Launch Complex 14, Cape Canaveral
Mission
Mercury-Atlas 6 carrying Sigma 7 spacecraft carried astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. to orbit where he completed 6 orbits lasting a total of 9 hours and 13 minutes. The mission goal was to compete engineering tests and all objectives were met.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- NASA
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3B
- Orbit
- LEO
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 14
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2