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

After the failure of MA-3 spacecraft 8 was recovered and redesignated spacecraft 8A and used for MA-4

Disposition

Dismantled by the National Air and Space Museum for spare parts.

Chronology

03 September 1960 

Aircraft telemetry requirements were deleted from the MA-3 and MA-4 missions, as the spacecraft had been modified to provide telemetry transmissions from the point of main parachute deployment to landing.

18 November 1960 

Spacecraft 8 Delivered to Cape Canaveral

25 April 1961 

MA-3 launched

The booster was destroyed by the range safety officer. The capsule was returned to McDonnell for refitting and redesignated as spacecraft 8A.

11 May 1961 

Spacecraft 8 now redesigated as Spacecraft 8A delivered to Cape Canaveral.

13 September 1961 

MA-4 launched.

1 November 1961 

The November 1961 Edition of SEDR-104 is published containing spacecraft 8 as a test capsule