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Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final manned space mission of the U.S. Mercury program launched on May 15 1963 from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral Florida. The spacecraft named Faith 7 completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper then an Air Force major. The Atlas rocket was No. 130-D and the Mercury spacecraft was No. 20.
