Mockup, Capsule, Mercury Instrumentation
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Object Details
- Summary
- When the Smithsonian received this artifact from NASA in 1967, it was the structural framework of a Mercury capsule only, without inner or outer skin or a forward recovery section. NASA had used it for instrumentation and wiring tests. The Michigan Space Center later converted the framework into a mockup of a Mercury capsule mounted atop a Redstone booster. It is no longer displayed outside on the booster.
- Project Mercury was the United States' first human spaceflight program, with a goal of launching a series of one-man capsules into space. Six astronauts flew in Mercury capsules from 1961-63, the first two were lofted into suborbital trajectories by the Redstone rocket, the last four into orbit by the Atlas ICBM.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Inventory Number
- A19680245000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- SPACECRAFT-Crewed-Test Vehicles
- Materials
- titanium framework?; plastic, metal
- Dimensions
- Approximate: 73in. (185.42cm)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19680245000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9fb147edf-5c6a-4169-85ac-710a608f4674
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