Mercury Atlas 9 Audio Excerpt, May 15, 1963

NASA / Low Earth Orbit

Mercury Atlas 9 Audio Excerpt, May 15, 1963

File

NASA-UAP-D011

Agency

NASA

Date

15 May 1963

Place

Low Earth Orbit

Format

AUD

During the final and longest flight of Project Mercury, Mercury-Atlas 9 mission (MA-9) Faith 7 Pilot L. Gordon Cooper Jr. describes the brilliant blue of sunrise beneath the haze layer of the Earth’s atmosphere. As he approaches sunrise, he describes small, luminous, brilliant white particles drifting away from the spacecraft. Cooper describes observing “fireflies” after deploying beacons, which are spherical mission-related equipment with xenon strobe lights.

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