![Image of : Mercury MR-3 Flight Freedom 7 Recovery; Military, USA, Navy, Aircraft Carriers, CV-39 Lake Champlain. [photograph]](https://airandspace.si.edu/sites/default/files/images/collection-objects/record-images/NASM-NASM-9A14503.jpg "Mercury MR-3 Flight Freedom 7 Recovery; Military, USA, Navy, Aircraft Carriers, CV-39 Lake Champlain. [photograph]")
Display Status:
This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.
Collection Item Summary:
View of U.S. Navy crew and members of the press crowded around the Freedom 7 capsule aboard the USS Lake Champlain (CV-39) following recovery mission for the Mercury MR-3 Flight, May 5, 1961.
Collection Item Long Description:
Topic
- Aircraft carriers
- Space flight
- Naval aviation
- Aeronautics
- Astronautics
- Space vehicles
Data Source
National Air and Space Museum Archives
Restrictions & Rights
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photographer
U.S. Navy
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Date
5/5/1961
Repository Loc.
National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division, MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560
Type
Photographs
Local number
NASM-9A14503
