A little fun with an important test....

May 8, 1960 - Wallops Island, VA. Testing the first production Mercury spacecraft for escape system capability to lift the spacecraft from the booster during an on-the-pad abort.

Test successful. Footage from our Project Mercury set, courtesy the National Archives.

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