Project Mercury: Wally Schirra Launches Sigma 7 Six-Orbit Flight, October 3, 1962
Project Mercury: US astronaut Wally Schirra, in Sigma 7, is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
Date: October 3, 1962
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