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Spacecraft 4

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

Destroyed at launch. Some recovered fragments are on display at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas

Fig IP-1 Main Instrument Panel of Capsule 4

Fig IP-2 Left Console of Capsule 4

Fig IP-3 Right Console of Capsules 4

Pending any new information in the February 1961 Edition of SEDR-104 or the August 1961 Edition of SEDR-104, Figs IP-1, IP-2, and IP-3 represent the SEDR-104 diagrams for the main instrument panel, and the left and right consoles of capsule 4.

Loaded on truck

Detail of heat shield and retro package

Detail of Antenna cannister and Escape Tower base

15 December 1959: The December 1959 Edition of SEDR-104 is published containing this Spacecraft as a test capsule

23 May 1960: Spacecraft 4 after being instrumented and prepared by the Space Task Group and the Langley Research Center for flight tests, was delivered to Cape Canaveral for the first Mercury-Atlas mission (MA-1).

29 July 1960: Mercury-Atlas 1 (MA-1) launched. The booster exploded and the spacecraft was destroyed upon impact off-shore.

1 February 1961: The February 1961 Edition of SEDR-104 is published presumably containing this Spacecraft.

1 August 1961: The August 1961 Edition of SEDR-104 is published presumably containing this Spacecraft.