Mercury-Atlas 6 - Spacecraft Location

Spacecraft Location

Mercury spacecraft # 13 - Friendship 7 - is currently displayed at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C. Mercury spacecraft #13 Friendship 7 display page on A Field Guide to American Spacecraft website.

On February 21, 1962, a metal fragment was recovered on a farm near the town of Aliwal-North,South Africa. It was identified as coming from the MA-6 Atlas launch vehicle by numbers stamped on it. The fragment had landed on the farm after about eight hours in orbit. The fragments were recovered by the Police and handed over to NASA,who returned it as a token of goodwill. The fragments are today on display in the Science Museum in Pretoria.

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