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

Spacecraft 9 flew on the MA-5 mission which carried Enos

Disposition

North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, Durham, North Carolina

In Jim Gerard's AFGAS

Details

Instrument Panel

Fig SC9-IP1 Photo of SC 9?

Fig SC9-IP2 Main IP

Fig SC9-IP3 Left Console

Fig SC9-IP4 Right Console

Fig SC9-IP1 shows a photo which I beleive to be spacecraft 9.

Chronology

24 February 1961 

Spacecraft 9 delivered to Cape Canaveral

1 November 1961 

The November 1961 Edition of SEDR-104 is published containing spacecraft 9 as a test capsule

1 February 1962 

The February 1962 Edition of SEDR-104 is published containing spacecraft 9 as a test capsule.

29 November 1961 

MA-5 Launched

8 August 1962 

Spacecraft 9 (redesignated spacecraft 9A) was phased into the Project Orbit program in preparation for the Mercury extended range or 1-day mission.

10 January 1963 

Spacecraft 9A was cycled through Project Orbit Mission Runs 108, 108A, and 108B in the test facilities of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation.