Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9 / Faith 7), the final Project Mercury flight, carried astronaut Gordon Cooper on a 22-orbit, ~34-hour mission from Cape Canaveral LC-14; Cooper manually controlled reentry after autopilot failures and splashed down successfully in the Pacific.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 7th
- of 7 Atlas LV-3B flights
- Date and time
- 15 May 1963, 13:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 14, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1963-015
- Launches in 1963
- 22nd of 69
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Object pages on Space Atlas: MERCURY ATLAS 9
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