Mercury Atlas 9 Audio Excerpt, May 15, 1963 (NASA-UAP-D011)
- Date
- 5/15/63 (per official index)
- Location
- Low Earth Orbit (per official index)
- Agency
- NASA
- Release
- Release 02 (May 22, 2026)
- Type
- audio
Summary
Audio item (MP4 file); no transcript was provided and the audio was not transcribed here, so this summary rests on the index text alone. Per index: During the final and longest flight of Project Mercury, Mercury-Atlas 9 mission (MA-9) Faith 7 Pilot L. Gordon Cooper Jr. describes the brilliant blue of sunrise beneath the haze layer of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Note
No transcript was provided; contents are known only from the index text.