Re: Early take on Mercury capsule



Jud McCranie wrote:

Project MErcury didn't start until the next year, right? I had a book
in the 50s that wasn't very accurate.




That thing looks familiar, but I can't place where I saw something like that.
It's not the Project Adam design that was the predecessor of the Redstone-launched Mercury, though it might be one of the MISS (Man-In-Space-Soonest) Project 7969 capsule designs: http://www.astronautix.com/craft/prot7969.htm

Pat
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