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Topic: Photo of the week 950 (January 7, 2023)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3644
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 01-07-2023 03:30 AM
   
 Mercury-Atlas 5 was launched from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral at 10:08 a.m. EST on November 29, 1961. The flight, carrying the chimpanzee Enos, was a test to qualify the Mercury spacecraft and all its systems during orbital flight and reentry. |
oly
Member Posts: 1436
From: Perth, Western Australia
Registered: Apr 2015
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posted 01-07-2023 04:32 AM
Great image Ed. More great details in your images. I have read about the amphibious vehicles on standby during the early Mercury launches but I have never seen an image of one before. Thanks for sharing. |
Jonnyed
Member Posts: 589
From: Dumfries, VA, USA
Registered: Aug 2014
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posted 01-07-2023 09:19 AM
Super photo. All the wonderful space program history to be made... |
Tom
Member Posts: 1674
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 01-07-2023 10:57 AM
Great photo, Ed, thanks for sharing. Would you say they were about 1 mile away? |
heng44
Member Posts: 3644
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 01-07-2023 12:24 PM
Hard to say, probably a telephoto lens. |
micropooz
Member Posts: 1665
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 01-07-2023 04:58 PM
I've got to wonder if one of the guys on the left with the tracking equipment is Edward Ehrenspeck, author of "NASA Range Rats: The True Beginnings". His job was to track the launches with a theodolite... |
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