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Mercury-Atlas 8
Astronaut Walter Schirra is assisted into his Sigma 7 spacecraft

Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8) earth orbital space flight, is assisted by back-up pilot L. Gordon Cooper and NASA engineers into his Sigma 7 spacecraft for the begining of the MA-8 mission.



Catalog Date: 10 May 1962
Film Type: 8x10
NASA image: 62-MA8-146


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