NASA Photo ID: S63-07707          File Name: 10073811.jpg

Film Type: 35mm cn                Date Taken: 05/16/63

Title: Navy frogmen attach flotation collar to Mercury-Atlas 9 spacecraft

Description:

A U.S. Navy frogman team attaches a flotation collar to the Mercury-Atlas 9 
"Faith 7" spacecraft during recovery operations in the central Pacific near 
Midway Island. The Mercury-Atlas spacecraft with Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper 
Jr., pilot, still inside, was hoisted aboard the U.S.S. Kearnage.