IMAGE 0_99\60.Lbm,Lift-off of the Mercury-Atlas launch vehicle that will carry John Glenn in Friendship 7 into orbit on February 20, 1962.
IMAGE 200_299\288.Lbm,The rocket park at the Visitors Center at the Kennedy Space Center, where examples of early US space hardware can be seen, including at left the Mercury-Redstone and Mercury-Atlas vehicles and at right the Gemini-Titan.
IMAGE 700_799\791.Lbm,Mercury 9/Atlas launch vehicle on the pad at Complex 14 just before lift-off on May 15, 1963. In the Mercury capsule, Faith 7, Gordon Cooper was to spend over 34 hours in space.