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Lot 54
  • 54

Gordon Cooper's Altitude Chamber Blueprint

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1,500 - 2,000 USD
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Description

  • paper, ink
Hanger “S,” Capsules 12B, 15A, 17 & 20 (Altitude Chamber) blueprint, McDonnell Aircraft Corp., April 25, 1960, 18 by 73 inches, half scale of master drawing.

Condition

18 1/4 x 73 inches. Annotations in pen and marker, and some browning along folds on far right of blueprint; occasional minor splitting at folds, and occasional wear to edges.
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Catalogue Note

INSCRIBED and SIGNED: "From my notebook, GORDON COOPER, Faith 7, Capsule 20."

Two drawings of the Mercury spacecraft are illustrated, one related to the overall placement in the Altitude Chamber a♔nd the other detailing the various electrical interfaces. All of these interfaces are mapped via routing lines to their associated 🧜junction or terminal boxes located at a check-out or telemetry vans (large trailers). Tie-ins to the check-out and telemetry equipment vans are shown. An early blueprint of the hangar facilities located at Cape Canaveral, Florida, devoted to the Mercury Program.

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