Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962

NASA / Low Earth Orbit

Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962

File

NASA-UAP-D013

Agency

NASA

Date

24 May 1962

Place

Low Earth Orbit

Format

AUD

During the fourth crewed spaceflight and second orbital flight of Project Mercury, Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7), Aurora 7 pilot Scott Carpenter describes white particles in view that appear to move at “random” and “look exactly like snowflakes.” He describes these phenomena as reflective, and that some seemed to move faster than the Aurora 7 spacecraft.

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