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terça-feira, 2 de outubro de 2012

Sigma 7: Wally Schirra's Mercury Flight

Interactive Feature on Wally Schirra's Mercury Flight. Credit: NASA.

50 years ago, Wally Schirra became the fifth American in space, making the third orbital flight of the Mercury program.

Schirra piloted his Sigma 7 capsule on a six-orbit mission that lasted more than nine hours on Oct. 3, 1962.

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