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'Sigma 7' at 50: Retro Space Images recall 5th US manned spaceflight [i]Fifty years ago, the United States launched its fifth astronaut into space. Walter M. "Wally" Schirra, Jr. rode his one-man Mercury spacecraft atop an Atlas rocket to orbit on Oct. 3, 1962. The nine-hour mission on the "Sigma 7" capsule was the longest to date for a U.S. flight and set the stage for the day long, final mission of the Mercury Program that followed... Retro Space Images, which recently released for sale an archive of almost 500 images from the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, chose these photos to visually retell the 50 year old flight of Wally Schirra on Sigma 7.[/i]
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