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Mercury Spacecraft

Manned spacecraft are in bold. Click for Acronym List

Spaceraft numbers and mission info obtained from Project Mercury - A Chronology, NASA SP-4001 and This New Ocean, NASA SP-4201

## Mission
Pic
Current Location Comments
Capsules
1 Beach Abort
New York Hall of Science, Corona Park, NY Formerly on Mercury Atlas. Now inside.
2 MR-1 MR-1A
NASA Ames Research Center, CA First space launch of Mercury Capsule 
3 LJ-5 (Little Joe 5)
X
Destroyed during launch .
4 MA-1
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, KS Destroyed during launch, only fragments recovered and on display
5 MR-2
California Science Center, Los Angeles, CA Launched chimpanzee "Ham"
6 MA-2
Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX New images!..
7 MR-3 Freedom 7 (Shepard)
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA On display until December, 2015
8 MA-3 MA-4
X
Dismantled Reused after launch abort.
Dismantled in 1976 by NASM for spare parts.
9 MA-5
North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, Durham NC Launched chimpanzee "Enos"
10 Unflown
Evergreen Aviation Museum, McMinnville, Oregon New images!.
11 MR-4 Liberty Bell 7 (Grissom)
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, KS Sank after accidental hatch opening. Restoration by the Cosmosphere.
12B Unflown
KSC Visitors Center, Kennedy Space Complex FL Refurbished by Guard-Lee
13 MA-6 Friendship 7 (Glenn)
National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C. .
14 LJ-5A [LJ-5B]
Virginia Air and Space Center, Hampton, VA New images! Reused after launch abort
15B Unflown
Udvar-Hazy Center, National Air and Space Museum, Chantilly, VA New images! Scheduled as MA-10 for Shepard. The name Freedom 7 II is still visible on capsule (QUEST Winter, 1993)
16 MA-8 Sigma 7 (Schirra)
United States Astronaut Hall of Fame, Titusville, FL .
17 Unflown
National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH .
18 MA-7 Aurora 7 (Carpenter)
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL .
19 Unflown
St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis, MO Formerly at Swiss Museum of Transport & Communication, Lucerne, Switzerland.
20 MA-9 Faith 7 (Cooper)
Space Center Houston, Houston, TX Last Mercury flight
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Boilerplates
BP LJ-1 (Little Joe 1) 
X
Not Recovered after MR-BD Also used on LJ-1A and MR-BD
BP BJ-1 (Big Joe 1)
Udvar-Hazy Center, National Air and Space Museum, Chantilly, VA First launch on an Atlas booster
BP LJ-6 (Little Joe 6)
X
Intentionally destroyed during test .
BP LJ-2 (Little Joe 2) 
Airpower Park, Hampton, VA Launched rhesus monkey 'Sam'
BP LJ-1B (Little Joe 1B)
Unknown Launched rhesus monkey 'Miss Sam'
BP .
Airpower Park, Hampton, VA .
BP
Air Zoo, Portage, Michigan Engineering mockup, placed atop Redstone booster
BP .
Army National Guard Annex, Pasadena, TX .
BP .
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, KS Formerly at Col. Bubbie's Surplus, Galveston, TX
BP Adios MF
Science Museum Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK Parachute drop test
BP .
Strategic Air Command Museum, Ashland, NE .
BP .
USAF Space Museum, Cape Canaveral Air Station, FL .
BP .
Roosevelt Middle School, Cocoa Beach, FL Formerly at Freedom 7 Elementary School, Cocoa Bch.
Trainer
. Trainer
US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL .
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Models
. Sit-in Model
Air Zoo, Portage, Michigan .
. Model
Astronaut Memorial Planetarium, Cocoa, FL Made by McDonnell
.. Model
Boeing Prologue Room, St. Louis, MO Made by McDonnell
. Model
Center of Science and Industry, Columbus, OH Made by McDonnell
. Sit-in Model
Center of Science and Industry, Columbus, OH .
. Model
Cradle of Aviation Museum, Mitchell Field, NY Made by McDonnell
. Model
Grand Turk, Turk and Caicos Islands .
Model
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York, NY Model of Aurora 7
. Model
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, KS Made by McDonnell
. Model
NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center, FL New Images! On Mercury Redstone booster at Gate 2.
Made by Guard Lee
. Sit-in Model
KSC Visitors Center, Kennedy Space Center FL Made by Museum Products
. Model
Museum of Science, Boston MA .
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Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA Made by McDonnell
. Sit-in Model
New York Hall of Science, Corona Park, NY Made by Guard Lee
. Model
Science Museum Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK Made by Guard Lee
Model
Science Museum Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK Rideable Simulator
. Model
Pate Museum of Transportation, Fort Worth, TX  Made by McDonnell
. Model
National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, FL Made by Guard Lee
. Model
San Diego Air & Space Museum, San Diego, CA Made by McDonnell
. Model
Space Center, Alamagordo, NM Made by McDonnell
. Sit-in Model
United States Astronaut Hall of Fame, Titusville, FL Sit-in model.

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