Gene Kranz's Mercury-Atlas 5 operations card, 4 x 2.5, issued as “1810” with an uncommon central Mercury Program logo showing the outline of the Roman god Mercury with a rocket, annotated vertically in ballpoint, “Kranz, E.” In fine condition, with pin holes to top border.
Kranz oversaw the launch of the Mercury-Atlas 5 as a Mission Control procedures officer. The launch, the final unmanned spaceflight of the Mercury program, took off from Cape Canaveral LC-14 on November 29, 1961, with Enos, a chimpanzee, as the lone occupant. The craft orbited the Earth twice and the resulting health and survival of Enos enabled NASA to greenlight Mercury for manned missions.
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