
S63-07707 (16 May 1963) --- A U.S. Navy frogman team attaches a flotation collar to the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9)"Faith 7" spacecraft during recovery operations in the central Pacific near Midway Island. The Mercury-Atlas spacecraft with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr., pilot, still inside, was hoisted aboard the USS Kearnage. Photo credit: NASA
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