MERCURY 7: CARPENTER SIGNED ORBIT CHART.

MERCURY 7: CARPENTER SIGNED ORBIT CHART.
Mercury Orbit Chart MOC-3. USAF Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, December 1961. 242 x 874 mm. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED near upper right corner Scott Carpenter — Mercury 7 — 24 May 1962. Rolled.
Provenance: Employee of the Defense Mapping Agency in St. Louis, by direct descent to current owner.

Draft copy of the first edition, from the Defense Mapping Agency. Mercury-Atlas 7, the fourth Project Mercury flight, was the first NASA manned space flight to focus on scientific information-gathering, rather than overcoming the technical obstacles of orbital flight.