Mercury flight audio: Reentry, splashdown, and recovery

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Date
1962-02-03
Summary
Mercury flight audio: Live transmission between Colonel Glenn in the Friendship 7 capsule, floating in the North Atlantic, and the USS Noa (code-named "Steelhead") on its way to recover the spacecraft. Long periods of silence between messages.
Publisher
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company. Group W
Genre
Special events radio coverage
Collection
Group W (Westinghouse Broadcasting Company) audio tapes
Unit
Special Collections and University Archives
Language
English
Rights Statement
In Copyright
Physical Description
sound tape reel
Notes
A guide to the full collection of Group W (Westinghouse Broadcasting Company) audio tapes is available in our archival collections: https://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/43884
Other Identifiers
Catalog Key: bcast-076884; Other: 0492-MMC

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