Despite the malfunctions, Cooper was able to make a perfect manual reentry. Faith 7 splashed down about 80 miles southeast of Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean on May 16, 1963.
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Fifty-five Years Ago, Faith 7 Closes Out Project Mercury
Project Mercury was America’s first human space flight program. The Space Task Group at Langley Research Center in Virginia initiated the project in 1958 with three goals: orbiting a human spacecraft, investigating an astronaut’s ability to function …NASA