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ColinBurgess
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posted 08-29-2014 02:27 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ColinBurgess   Click Here to Email ColinBurgess     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I am trying with limited success to track the movements of Scott Carpenter's Aurora 7 spacecraft.

I know that it was displayed at the New York World's Fair 1964/65, and in October 1967 the spacecraft went to the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. In 1978 it was sent under loan from the Smithsonian to the newly-constructed Hong Kong Science Museum in Kowloon until at least 1983. It now resides at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.

I would like to get some more precise details on the spacecraft's movements if anyone has kept track of these and wouldn't mind passing them on to me, or even posting them on this forum.

ColinBurgess
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posted 08-31-2014 05:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ColinBurgess   Click Here to Email ColinBurgess     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Can anyone assist with information on the post-flight movements of "Aurora 7"? I do have some basic details but need more information for inclusion in the book about the flight of Scott Carpenter.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 08-31-2014 06:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
According to the Smithsonian, Aurora 7 was at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia prior to joining the National Collection in October 1967.

MB
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posted 08-31-2014 08:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MB   Click Here to Email MB     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Aurora 7 was the main "Man in Orbit" exhibit at the Space Science Fair in Cleveland, Ohio from November 23 - December 2, 1962.

ColinBurgess
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posted 08-31-2014 08:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ColinBurgess   Click Here to Email ColinBurgess     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Many thanks, MB, that's exactly the missing sort of information I am seeking in order to assemble a chronology of the spacecraft's movements.

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