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[Mercury Program]
Flight Maps signed by 3 of the Mercury 7
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July 15, 02:11 PM GMT
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[MERCURY PROGRAM]
Gridded area map of Cape Canaveral, showing over a dozen launch pad complexes, including Launch Pad 14 used for all crewed Mercury Atlas launches. 11 by 20½ inches in size with two folds SIGNED and INSCRIBED by SCOTT CARPENTER. &n꧒bsp;
Mercury Orbit Chart MOC-4. Color Earth map, USAF⛎ Aeronautical Chart and Information Center for NASA, June 1962, 8½ by 33 inches. INSCRIBED and SIGNED: "The Six Orbits of Sigma 7, WALLY SCHIRRA" along the lower center. ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED and SIGNED in the Pacific Ocean west of South America with: “I have lift-off, the clock has started! WALLY SCHIRRA.”
Mercury Orbit Chart MOC-6, 1st Edition. Color Earth map, USAF Aeronautical Chart and Information Center for NASA, February 1963, 10½ by 35½ inches. INSCRIBED and SIGNED along the top center border: “Boy, what a view from up here, Surprises you every orbit. Cape Canaveral, Orbit 18. GORDON COOPER.” Additionally INSCRIBED and SIGNED: "The 22 Orbits for Faith 7, Gordon Cooper" along the lower cenꦓter border.
LAUNCH PAD AND FL🤡IGHT ORBITAL MAPS SIGNED BY THREE OF THE ORIGINAL SEVEN
Project Mercury's goal was to put a man into Earth orbit, and was the U.S.'s first human spaceflight program, running 1958-1963. The charts in this lot are signed and annotated by three of the first seven NASA astro🐬nauts: SCOTT CARPEN♔TER, WALLY SCHIRRA, and GORDON COOPER.
Part of Mercury💮 Launch GO or NO-GO decisions included analysis of wind direction and speed to predict w🍒here the Mercury spacecraft would land during early abort plus the direction of falling rocket debris.
All six orbits of the Mercury Atlas 8 flight are plotted with circles representing the ground coverage foot print of the Mercury world-wide tracking stations. Schirra has inscribed the date and time of his launch near the Cape Canaveral area of the chart with: "7:15 am, 3 Oct '62" and his flight time "9 hr 13m" near the sp♎lashdown bull's eye close to Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean.
All 22 orbits of the Mercury Atlas 9 flight are plotted with circles representing the ground coverage foot print of the Mercury world-wide tracking stations. Cooper has inscribed the date of his la♏unch near the Cape Canaveral area of the chart with: "Launch – 15 May 63" and his splashdown site designation and date: "Splashdown @ C-22, 16 May 63" near the splashdown bull's eye close to Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean.