Figure 23 



Mercury MA-9 orbital chart 



Photographs taken during the manned satel lite missionshave normally been limited 

 to those taken from orbits which did not exceed the equatorial band of 35° N to 35° S. The 

 path of these flights is typified by the orbits pictured above for Mercury mission MA-9. 

 This mission lasted 22 orbital passes with the spacecraft landing near Midway Island in 

 the Pacific Ocean. (NASA 1963) 



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