TEST OF SPACEMAN RESCUE DEVICE.—A one-ton “boilerplate” model of the Project Mercury capsule, designed to carry a spaceman into orbit round the earth, is shot into the air in a test of the escape mechanism at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration station at Wallops Island, Virginia. The triple nose rockets are designed to lift the man-carrying capsule (below) off the basic missile stages should something go wrong in an attempted launching. In the test at 2250 ft, the triple rockets were disconnected, and a parachute lowered the capsule to the water, where it was recovered by helicopter.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28888, 7 May 1959, Page 3
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98TEST OF SPACEMAN RESCUE DEVICE.—A one-ton “boilerplate” model of the Project Mercury capsule, designed to carry a spaceman into orbit round the earth, is shot into the air in a test of the escape mechanism at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration station at Wallops Island, Virginia. The triple nose rockets are designed to lift the man-carrying capsule (below) off the basic missile stages should something go wrong in an attempted launching. In the test at 2250 ft, the triple rockets were disconnected, and a parachute lowered the capsule to the water, where it was recovered by helicopter. Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28888, 7 May 1959, Page 3
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