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Understanding 9/11Mecury Spacecraft Boilerplate
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Boilerplate Mercury spacecraft being manufactured "in-house" by Langley technicians. The capsules were designed to test spacecraft recovery systems. The escape tower and rocket motors shown on the completed capsule would be removed before shipping and finally assembly for launching at Wallops Island. Design of the Little Joe capsules began at Langley before McDonnell started on the design of the Mercury capsule.
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Reviewer:
nedfarrar
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June 26, 2020
Subject: Date Must Be Wrong
Subject: Date Must Be Wrong
This image is showing with a 1944 date on it, yet Project Mercury only began in 1958. There were certainly no space capsules of any kind being tested in 1944.
