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Mercury (1:3 scale model)

Astronauts flew two suborbital missions and four orbital missions in Mercury capsules from 1961 through 1963.

Image Number: 2011-01042a
Credit: Photo by Eric Long, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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