Atlas LV-3B | Mercury-Atlas 8
Launch Successful
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Instantaneous launch window.
Launch Window
Oct. 3, 1962, 12:15 p.m. - Oct. 3, 1962, 12:15 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
Oct. 3, 1962, 12:15 p.m. - Oct. 3, 1962, 12:15 p.m.
Mercury-Atlas 6 carrying Sigma 7 spacecraft carried astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. to orbit where he completed 6 orbits lasting a total of 9 hours and 13 minutes. The mission goal was to compete engineering tests and all objectives were met.
The Atlas LV-3B, Atlas D Mercury Launch Vehicle or Mercury-Atlas Launch Vehicle, was a human-rated expendable launch system used as part of the United States Project Mercury to send astronauts into low Earth orbit. Manufactured by American aircraft manufacturing company Convair, it was derived from the SM-65D Atlas missile, and was a member of the Atlas family of rockets.
Mercury No.16 is the Mercury capsule used for the Mercury-Atlas 8 - callsign "Sigma 7" - mission launched on October 3, 1962 and piloted by astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr.
Mercury Details
Date of
Birth: March 12, 1923
Date of Death:
May 3, 2007
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