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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  Original caption: Cape Canaveral -- Ready to GO.  Astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter is ready for liftoff. This photo was made immediately after Carpenter was inserted into his spacecraft, Aurora 7, as it was poised atop the Atlas booster at Cape Canaveral. Carpenter successfully completed three orbits and was plucked from the Atlantic Ocean near Puerto Rico at 3:40 p.m., Thursday, May 24, 1962</li></ul></div>
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24 May 1962<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1962-05-24T00:00:00Z/11</div>
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