Mercury-Atlas 8: Difference between revisions

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<div style="float:right;margin:0 0 1em 1em;text-align:center;">[[image:Mercury 8 Hangar (small).jpg|Mercury 8 in Hangar (NASA)]]<br>''Mercury 8 in Hangar (NASA)''<br>[[media:Mercury 8 Hangar (big).jpg|larger version]]</div>

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!colspan="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FFDEAD"|Mission Insignia

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|colspan="2" align="center"|[[Image:Sigma 7 insignia.jpg|Mercury 8 insignia]]

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!colspan="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FFDEAD"|Mission Statistics

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|'''Mission Name:'''||Mercury MA-8

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|'''Call Sign:'''||Sigma 7

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|'''Number of<br>Crew Members:'''||1

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|'''Launch:'''||[[October 3]], [[1962]]<br>--:--:-- [[UTC]]<br>[[Cape Canaveral]]<br>Complex 14

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|'''Landing:'''||[[Octover 3]], [[1962]]<br>--:--:-- UTC

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|'''Duration:'''||9 hours - 13 minutes<br>11 seconds

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|'''Number of<br>Orbits:'''||6

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'''Mercury 8''' was a [[Mercury program]] [[manned space mission]] launched on [[October 3]], [[1962]]. The capsule was named "Sigma 7" and completed six earth orbits piloted by astronaut [[Wally Schirra]]. It was the first flawless Mercury mission.

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|[[Image:GPN-2000-001351.jpg|center|thumb|350px250px|Mercury 8 crew portrait (Schirra)]]

|[[image:Mercury 8 Hangar (small).jpg|center|thumb|138px|Mercury 8 in Hangar (NASA)]]

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