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Mercury 3 $2.99
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First U.S. suborbital manned space flight. After reaching peak altitude of 116 miles and a velocity of 5,180 mph, the Mercury capsule landed in the Atlantic Ocean. The flight demonstrated that a human can control a space vehicle during weightlessness, high gravity systems and suffer no adverse physiological effects.
Launch Date: May 5, 1961, 9:34 AM EST Launch Vehicle: Mercury-Redstone. Spacecraft unofficially named "Freedom 7' Crew: Alan B. Shepard, Jr. Patch size 3”
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Mercury 6 $2.99
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First U.S. orbital manned space flight. The Mercury spacecraft completed three orbits in an 81,000 mile flight lasting four hours, 56 minutes. Due to automatic pilot difficulties, Glenn manually piloted the spacecraft on its second and third orbits. The flight provided significant aerospace medical data during 285 minutes of weightlessness. Several days later, Glenn was greeted in New York City with a ticker-tape parade attended by nearly four million people. Launch Date: February 20, 1962, 9.47 AM EST. Launch Vehicle: Mercury-Atlas. Spacecraft unofficially named "Friendship 7" Patch size 3” format
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Mercury 8 $2.99
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The Sigma I spacecraft traveled 160,000 miles completing nearly six orbits and returned to Earth at a predetermined point in the Pacific Ocean nine hours, 14 minutes after launch. Schiffa was safely aboard recovery vessel within 37 minutes after landing. The flight continued to prove the feasibility of prolonged weightlessness in space. Launch Date: October 3, 1962, 7:15 AM EST. Launch Vehicle: Mercury-Atlas. Spacecraft unofficially named "Sigma 7" Crew: Walter M. Schirra, Jr
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Mercury 4 $2.99
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Mercury 4 was the fourth mission in the Mercury series of flight tests and the second U.S. manned sub orbital space flight. It was the next step in the progressive research, development and training program leading to the study of man's capabilities in a space environment during manned orbital flight. Launch Date: July 21, 1961. 7:20 a.m. EST. Crew: Crew:Virgil I "Gus" GrissomLaunch Vehicle: Liberty Bell 7 This patch size 3” format
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Mercury 7 $2.99
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This was the second U.S. orbital manned space flight. The flight featured space capsule attitude, stabilization and control tasks for the three-orbit mission. Carpenter became the first astronaut to eat food in space. A re-entry navigational error caused the Mercury space capsule to overshoot its southeast Atlantic Ocean landing site by 200 miles. Carpenter spent three hours in a life raft before being picked up by a rescue helicopter. Launch Date: May 24, 1962, 7:45 AM EST. Launch Vehicle: Mercury-Atlas. Spacecraft unofficially named "Aurora 7" Crew: M. Scott Carpenter
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Mercury 9 $2.99
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Astronaut Cooper’s mission was to "determine the effects of extended spaceflight on man."' Cooper completed 22 orbits, traveling 593,885 miles in 34 hours, 20 minutes. Astronaut and spacecraft were recovered only 36 minutes after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Launch Date: May 15, 1963, 8:04 AM EST. Launch Vehicle: Mercury-Atlas. Spacecraft unofficially named "Faith 7" . Crew: L Gordon Cooper, Jr.
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