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Cooper and Schirra Check Out Mercury Spacecraft

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Sep 15, 1962
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Gordon Cooper and Wally Schirra check out the MA-8 spacecraft in the Hangar S white room.
Mercury astronauts L. Gordon Cooper, left, and Wally Schirra check MA-8 spacecraft in the Hangar S white room at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Mercury astronauts L. Gordon Cooper, left, and Wally Schirra check out the Mercury Atlas-8 spacecraft in the Hangar S white room at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Photo credit: NASA