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Topic: Mercury capsules at John Glenn ceremony
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tlifan2
Member Posts: 49
From: Palm Coast, Florida
Registered: Feb 2014
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posted 01-02-2020 06:44 PM
   
When President Kennedy attended the ceremony for John Glenn at Hangar S in 1962, there were two Mercury capsules flanking the stage. One was Friendship 7 and the other looked like an unflown production spacecraft. Does anybody know if it was Deke Slayton's Delta 7 or something else?  |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3324
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 01-02-2020 11:53 PM
It might be unflown capsule #19. Here is a photo of JFK and LBJ with capsule #19 inside Hangar S at Cape Canaveral later that year in September 1962.
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 43576
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-03-2020 10:40 PM
According to Project Mercury: A Chronology (SP-4001), Mercury spacecraft 19 arrived at the Cape on March 20, 1962. The ceremony was held on Feb. 23, 1962.The capsules that were at the Cape for the event were nos. 18 (Aurora 7, delivered Nov. 15, 1961) and 16 (Sigma 7, delivered Jan. 16, 1962). quote:
Originally posted by tlifan2:
Does anybody know if it was Deke Slayton's Delta 7...
No. 18 was originally assigned to Slayton to fly as Delta 7 before becoming Scott Carpenter's Aurora 7, but whether it was no. 18 or 16 that was outside Hangar S for the ceremony is unclear. | |
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