• Mockup, Capsule, Mercury Instrumentation
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    "FRAME of SPACECRAFT Mercury with no inner or outer skin"; "stripped to a rigid stringer frame only, ... and has no antenna fairing section"; "This item was an instrumentation mockup with its construction limited to the cage-type appearance" (Accession records, Registrar's file for NASM 1845); currently used as framework for a Mercury spacecraft mockup

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Date Created

11/28/2021

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Keywords

Engineers; Human Spaceflight; Mercury Program; Missions; Space; Spacecraft

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