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GIL-1

Model

Mercury Atlas

Silver plastic rocket mounted on black metal base; detaches into two pieces.

Mercury’s four manned orbital flights were made with this vehicle. During the first, on February 20, 1962, John Glenn flew for four hours fifty-five minutes and achieved three orbits. During the last and longest, on May 15, 1963, Gordon Cooper flew for thirty-four hours twenty minutes and achieved twenty-two orbits.

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	Imperial(in)		Metric(cm)
Height	19		48.3
Width	6		15.3
Depth	6		15.3
Diameter
Circumference