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a cover serviced for orbital launch of Project Mercury MA-9 Faith 7 Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Orbit Covers cachet, Cancelled Cape Canaveral FL 16-May-1963. Flap not stuck.
Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final final crewed mission of the U.S. Mercury program launched on May 15, 1963, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft, named Faith 7, completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper, then a United States Air Force major. The Atlas rocket was No. 130-D, and the Mercury spacecraft was No. 20. As of January 2025, this mission marks the last time an American was launched alone to conduct an entirely solo orbital mission.
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