Mercury 4 Patch

3/7/61 - Spacecraft delivered to Hanger S CCAFS
Payload:Spacecraft # 11, Launch Vehicle S/N MR-8
Mission Objective:
Mercury-Redstone 4 was the fourth mission in the Mercury-Redstone series of flight tests and the second U.S. manned suborbital spaceflight. It was the next step in the progressive research, development and training program leading to the study of man's capabilities in a space environment during manned orbital flight.

Launch Date: July 21, 1961. 7:20 a.m. EST.
Crew: Crew:Virgil I "Gus" Grissom
Backup Crew: John H. Glenn, Jr.
Launch Vehicle: Liberty Bell 7

Mercury 7 Patch

This was the second U.S. orbital manned space flight. The flight featured space capsule attitude, stabilization and control tasks for the three-orbit mission. Carpenter became the first astronaut to eat food in space. A re-entry navigational error caused the Mercury space capsule to overshoot its southeast Atlantic Ocean landing site by 200 miles. Carpenter spent three hours in a life raft before being picked up by a rescue helicopter.

Launch Date: May 24, 1962, 7:45 AM EST
Launch Vehicle: Mercury-Atlas. Spacecraft unofficially named "Aurora 7"
Crew: M. Scott Carpenter

Mercury 9 Patch

Astronaut Cooper’s mission was to "determine the effects of extended spaceflight on man."' Cooper completed 22 orbits, traveling 593,885 miles in 34 hours, 20 minutes. Astronaut and spacecraft were recovered only 36 minutes after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

Launch Date: May 15, 1963, 8:04 AM EST
Launch Vehicle: Mercury-Atlas. Spacecraft unofficially named "Faith 7"
Crew: L Gordon Cooper, Jr.

Mercury 3 Patch

First U.S. suborbital manned space flight. After reaching peak altitude of 116 miles and a velocity of 5,180 mph, the Mercury capsule landed in the Atlantic Ocean 302 miles downrange following a 14.8 minute flight Astronaut and capsule were recovered by a helicopter within six minutes of landing. The flight demonstrated that a human can control a space vehicle during weightlessness, high gravity systems and suffer no adverse physiological effects. Three days later at the White House, President Kennedy presented Shepard with NASA's Distinguished Service Medal.

Launch Date: May 5, 1961, 9:34 AM EST
Launch Vehicle: Mercury-Redstone. Spacecraft unofficially named "Freedom 7'
Crew: Alan B. Shepard, Jr.

Mercury 6 Patch

First U.S. orbital manned space flight. The Mercury spacecraft completed three orbits in an 81,000 mile flight lasting four hours, 56 minutes. Due to automatic pilot difficulties, Glenn manually piloted the spacecraft on its second and third orbits. Splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean was 166 miles east of Grand Turk Island. Astronaut Glenn remained inside the Mercury capsule "Friendship 7" until it was safely aboard the deck of the recovery vessel. The flight provided significant aerospace medical data during 285 minutes of weightlessness. Several days later, Glenn was greeted in New York City with a ticker-tape parade attended by nearly four million people.

Launch Date: February 20, 1962, 9.47 AM EST
Launch Vehicle: Mercury-Atlas. Spacecraft unofficially named "Friendship 7"
Crew: John H. Glenn, Jr.

Mercury 8 Patch

The Sigma I spacecraft traveled 160,000 miles completing nearly six orbits and returned to Earth at a predetermined point in the Pacific Ocean nine hours, 14 minutes after launch. Schiffa was safely aboard recovery vessel within 37 minutes after landing. The flight continued to prove the feasibility of prolonged weightlessness in space.

Launch Date: October 3, 1962, 7:15 AM EST
Launch Vehicle: Mercury-Atlas. Spacecraft unofficially named "Sigma 7"
Crew: Walter M. Schirra, Jr

John H. Glenn Commemorative Patch

Commemorative emblem honoring astronaut John Glenn and his flights on Mercury 6

Launch Date: February 2, 1962 - October, 1998