Mercury MR-3 – MA-9 space flown artifact presentation Gordon Cooper Six space shuttles were built

Six space shuttles were built by Rockwell International for NASA's Space Shuttle Program Enterprise (atmospheric flight tests)

Donald Pettit

A museum-quality collectible linking the Gemini program to the later triumph of Apollo

MA-8 and MA-9) using Atlas rockets

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

Mercury MR-3 – MA-9 space flown artifact presentation Gordon Cooper Six space shuttles were builtMercury 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