Mercury MR-3 – MA-9 space flown artifact presentation Gordon Cooper This leg transformed the cover

This leg transformed the cover into a rare transatlantic artifact: launched aboard a European Ariane 5 and returned aboard an American Space Shuttle

Launched May 15th 1963 from Launch Complex 14

Exceptional examples may have travelled aboard two spacecraft

Complete hand signed SpaceX Crew-3 signature set

New condition

Mercury MR-3 – MA-9 space flown artifact presentation Gordon Cooper This leg transformed the coverMercury MR 3 thru MA 9 flown artifact 8x10'' presentation containing flown artifacts from all manned Mercury flights. Project Mercury was the first manned spacecraft program in the US. The program included unmanned test flights prior to the Mercury 7 astronauts, flying six manned missions. Two suborbital missions (MR 3 and MR 4), launched using Redstone rockets, were followed by four orbital flights (MA 6, MA 7, MA 8 and MA 9) using Atlas rockets. All