Mercury 8 launch. Sigma 7 spacecraft launching on top of an Atlas rocket,from Cape Canaveral,Florida,USA,on 3 October 1962. Inside was US astronaut Wally Schirra (1923-2007),who orbited the Earth six times in the spacecraft during the nine hour 13 minute flight. Schirra went on to pilot the Gemini 6A mission in 1965,and command the Apollo 7 mission in 1968. He was the only man to fly in all three of the USA's first three space programs | |
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