Cancelled Spaceflights

Mercury 12

USA

Planning data

Launch date (planned):  End 1963

Crew

No.   Surname Given names Position
1  Schirra  Walter Marty, Jr. "Wally"  PLT

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Mission objectives

Final planned flight of four one-day duration Mercury mission. Later there was budgetary pressure to shut down Mercury.

Graphics

Mercury spacecraft

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Last update on July 11, 2019.

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