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Cooper
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Cooper |
| Full Description |
Mercury-Atlas 9 lifts off from Pad 14 at Cape Canaveral with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper aboard Faith 7 for the nation's longest manned orbital flight. Lift-off occurred at 8:04 a.m. EST, on May 15, 1963. And 34 hours, 20 minutes, 30 seconds, and 22 orbits later, Gordon Cooper was resting in his Faith 7 space capsule in the blue Pacific Ocean. |
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5/15/1963 |
| NASA Center |
Kennedy Space Center |
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Ethiopian Emperor Attends Ap
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Ethiopian Emperor Attends Apollo 11 Briefing |
| Date of Image |
1969-07-15 |
| Full Description |
During a Kennedy Space Center (KSC) briefing on the next day?s Apollo 11 launch, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (with raised hand) asks a question of Rocco A. Petrone, director of launch operations at KSC. To the right of the emperor is astronaut Gordon Cooper and to his left is Dr. Kurt Debus, director of KSC. The first manned lunar launch occurred at 9:32 am on July 16, 1969. The crew included astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander, Michael Collins, Command Module (CM) pilot, and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module (LM) pilot. After 21/2 hours of collecting samples on the lunar surface, the crew safely splashed down into the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969. With the success of Apollo 11, the national objective to land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth had been accomplished. |
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Southern portion of Taiwan p
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Southern portion of Taiwan photographed during MA-9 22 orbit |
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The southern portion of the island of Taiwan (Formosa), Formosa Straight, and the Pacific Ocean, looking northeast, as photographed from the Mercury-Atlas 9 capsule by Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr., during his 22 orbit Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9) spaceflight. |
| Date Taken |
1963-05-16 |
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Mercury-Atlas 9 "Faith 7" sp
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Mercury-Atlas 9 "Faith 7" spacecraft splashdown in the Pacific Ocean |
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The Mercury-Atlas 9 "Faith 7" spacecraft, with Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr. aboard, nears splashdown in the Pacific Ocean to conclude a 22 orbit mission lasting 34 hours and 20.5 minutes. The capsules parachute is fully deployed in this view. |
| Date Taken |
1963-05-16 |
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Mercury-Atlas 9 "Faith 7" sp
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Mercury-Atlas 9 "Faith 7" spacecraft splashdown in the Pacific Ocean |
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The Mercury-Atlas 9 "Faith 7" spacecraft, with Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr. aboard, splashdown in the Pacific Ocean to conclude a 22 orbit mission lasting 34 hours and 20.5 minutes. The capsules parachute is fully deployed in this view. A rescue helicopter hovers overhead |
| Date Taken |
1971-03-26 |
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