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Air Force Photography / Unidentified photographer

Mercury Atlas at Cape Canaveral

May 1963

Vintage photograph with "Official Art Force Photography" and "Brevard Photos" stamps on the verso.
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)
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Mercury-Atlas 9 was launched on May 15, 1963 with Gordon Cooper as the only astronaut aboard. It was the last time that an American astronaut undertook a solo orbital mission.

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