Lot 59
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Mercury Atlas 8 Orbital Chart for Sigma 7 – Signed with Flight Information

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Description

  • Schirra Records his Launch and Landing Times
  • paper, ink
Mercury Orbit Chart MOC-4. Color Earth map, USAF Aeronautical Chart and Information Center for NASA, June 1962, 8½ by 33 inches.

Catalogue Note

INSCRIBED and SIGNED: "The Six Orbits of Sigma 7, WALLY SCHIRRA" along the lower center.

All six orbits of the MA-8 flight are plotted with circles representing the ground coverage foot print of the Mercury world-wide tracking stations. Schirra has inscribed the date and time of his launch near the Cape Canaveral area of the chart with: "7:15 am, 3 Oct '62" and his flight time "9 hr 13m" near the splashdown bull's eye close to Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean.

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