Mercury Atlas 8 Audio Excerpt, October 3, 1962 (NASA-UAP-D012)
- Date
- 10/3/62 (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 Mercury Atlas 8 mission, Sigma 7 pilot Walter M. “Wally” Schirra Jr. describes observing “little white objects that tend to come from the capsule itself and drift off.”
Note
No transcript was provided; contents are known only from the index text.