NASA-UAP-D011, Mercury Atlas 9 Audio Excerpt, May 15, 1963
Same recording as the official release. Open on DVIDS
During the final and longest flight of Project Mercury, Mercury-Atlas 9 mission (MA-9) Faith 7 Pilot L. Gordon Cooper Jr. describes the brilliant blue of sunrise beneath the haze layer of the Earth’s atmosphere. As he approaches sunrise, he describes small, luminous, brilliant white particles drifting away from the spacecraft. Cooper describes observing “fireflies” after deploying beacons, which are spherical mission-related equipment with xenon strobe lights.
- Agency
- NASA
- Release
- Release 02
- File type
- Audio
- Document type
- Type not recorded
- Case written up
- No
- Status
- Audio listed, no transcript
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