Everything you never knew you wanted to know about the Mercury Project

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Production Mercury Spacecraft
Flown Spacecraft
SC 1		9 May 1960
SC 4		29 Jul 1960
SC 3		8 Nov 1960
SC 2		21 Nov 1960
SC 2A		19 Dec 1960
SC 5		31 Jan 1961
SC 6		21 Feb 1961
SC 14		18 Mar 1961
SC 8		25 Apr 1961
SC 14A		28 Apr 1961
SC 7		5 May 1961
SC 11		21 Jul 1961
SC 8A		12 Sep 1961
SC 9		29 Nov 1961
SC 13		20 Feb 1962
SC 18		24 May 1962
SC 16		3 Oct 1962
SC 20		15-16 May 1962
Unflown Spacecraft
SC 10 SC 12
SC 15 SC 15A
SC 15B SC 17
SC 19

Mission

This capsule was unflown. It was used as a testbed for capsule modifications throughout the program.

Disposition

Displayed at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas

This may be the only Mercury spacecraft which is displayed without some form of plexiglass covering.

[http://aesp.nasa.okstate.edu/fieldguide/pages/mercury/ME-10.html Entry in Jim Gerard's AFGAS]

Chronology

8 March 1961 

Spacecraft 10 delivered to the McDonnell altitude test facility

16 March 1961 

Spacecraft 10 withdrawn from the flight program and allocated to a ground test simulating orbital flight environmental conditions at the McDonnell plant site.

1 November 1961 

The November 1961 Edition of SEDR-104 is published containing this Spacecraft as a test capsule