Mercury-Atlas 10
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Mercury-Atlas 10
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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 G
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Cancelled American space mission
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Atlas_10
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2023-09-23T01:23:35Z
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