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The Mercury-Redstone 4/Liberty Bell 7 mission would take advantage of this new procedure. Additional hardware changes to Liberty Bell 7 were a redesigned fairing for the spacecraft-Redstone adapter clamp-ring and additional foam padding added to the head area of the contour couch. The fairing changes and additional foam were used to reduce ...
In the meantime another recovery helicopter tried to lift and retrieve the Liberty Bell 7, but the flooding spacecraft became too heavy, forcing the recovery crew to cut it loose, and it ultimately sank. [22] Liberty Bell 7, recovered in 1999, was restored and is displayed at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas
The Liberty Bell 7 capsule sank after filling with water. [4] [81] [82] Although a helicopter managed to secure the capsule and attempted to lift it, the weight of the water added 4,000 pounds (1,800 kg) to the load. The $5,000,000 Mercury spacecraft was cut loose and sank to the bottom of the ocean, and would not be found until May 1999.
Freedom 7 (Spacecraft No. 7) at the United States Naval Academy, 2010 Liberty Bell 7 (Spacecraft No. 11) at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center , 2010 Friendship 7 (Spacecraft No. 13) at the National Air and Space Museum , 2009
Flown items included in the Cosmosphere's collection are a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the Liberty Bell 7 Mercury spacecraft, the Gemini 10 space capsule, and the Command Module Odyssey from Apollo 13. Additionally, authentic Redstone and Titan II launch vehicles used in the Mercury and Gemini programs flank the building's exterior. [9]
Fellow Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard watches launch at the CAPCOM console in Mercury Control during Gus Grissom's July 21, 1961, Mercury-Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7) flight
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Liberty Bell 7, one of the spacecraft of the Mercury spaceflight program; Liberty Bell Mountain, a mountain in Washington, U.S. Liberty Bell Park Racetrack, a defunct horse racing track in Philadelphia that operated 1963–1986; Liberty Bell Ruby, largest mined ruby in the world, found in east Africa in the 1950s