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Mission type | Test flight |
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Operator | NASA |
Mission duration | 3 days (planned) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Mercury No.15 |
Manufacturer | McDonnell Aircraft |
Launch mass | ~1,490 kilograms (3,284 lb)[1] |
Crew | |
Crew size | 1 |
Members | Alan Shepard |
Callsign | Freedom 7 II |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 1963 (cancelled) |
Rocket | Atlas LV-3B |
Launch site | Cape Canaveral LC-14 |
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Mercury-Atlas 10 (MA-10) was a cancelled early crewed space mission, which would have been the last flight in NASA's Mercury program. It was planned as a three-day extended mission, to launch in late 1963; the spacecraft, Freedom 7-II, would have been flown by Alan Shepard, a veteran of the suborbital Mercury-Redstone 3 mission in 1961. However, it was cancelled after the success of the one-day Mercury-Atlas 9 mission in May 1963, to allow NASA to focus its efforts on the more advanced two-man Gemini program.
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