Talk:Mercury-Atlas 7

Incorrect mission insignia
The Aurora 7 insignia on the side of the spacecraft was blue, not red. The version shown on this page (a souvenir patch created by Ed Buckbee, I believe) is incorrect. Does anyone have the correct blue version that they can post here? SpaceHistory101 (talk) 16:15, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Now done, I see - thank you!! SpaceHistory101 (talk) 18:57, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

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 * Since made this fix with a photograph of the actual blue 7,  reverted it in December 2011, after he "cleaned up" the (Ed Buckbee?) graphic (though he did not correct the color.) We should ask Craigboy to straighten this out. JustinTime55 (talk) 17:28, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Trivia
Stuff that might be worth mentioning in the article, mostly if someone comes up with a quotable confirmation:
 * Carpenter was obviously the second American in orbit.
 * As far as I heard, this was the first mission where the astronaut actually had controls to fly the spacecraft, after the experienced Air Force pilots complained about just being payload, as a "man in a can on an ICBM".
 * You heard incorrectly. That capability was built in from the beginning; Shepard demonstrated attitude control of his capsule. Carpenter's flight might have been highlighted as the first case where he actually had to use it because of failure of the automatic system. JustinTime55 (talk) 16:09, 3 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Carpenter was wearing a Breitling "Cosmonaute" - a version of the "Navitimer" Chronograph with a 24h movement/dial created for the occasion. Noteworthy because the Gemini and Apollo Programs later adopted the Omega "Speedmaster" as official Astronaut equipment.
 * In fact The Breitling article already mentions Carpenter's watch, describes the situation a bit better, but also has no quotable sources.

--BjKa (talk) 20:08, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

mission insignia
The NASA webpage for Mercury-Atlas 7 uses the following insignia for the mission. Why does this page use a different insignia? Is there a source for this insignia and a reference (preferably from NASA) for why it is used as the official insignia on the Mercury-Atlas 7 page?

75.156.157.253 (talk) 23:09, 2 March 2015 (UTC)


 * The Mercury astronauts did not actually have mission patches, as they did on later programs (Gemini, Apollo, etc.) The "patches" we see today were designed after the fact (as was the serpent insignia / 7 representing the program). However, each spacecraft had its designated name ("Something" 7) painted or decaled on the side of it; a graphic of this against a black background (representing the actual steel-grey of the spacecraft) is what we've chosen to put in the infoboxes. For the first two suborbital flights, this was simply the words "Freedom" or "Liberty Bell" in white Amarillo font. On later missions, they made them more graphic, with different fonts and some kind of symbol. We should probably document this somewhere (on the Project Mercury page), but there is no need to be bureaucratic about reference citations here; this is easily verifiable from the photographs taken of each spacecraft, in many cases with the astronaut climbing into it.
 * (BTW: Please add new sections at the bottom of this page.) JustinTime55 (talk) 16:05, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

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