Original U.S. Heat Shield Fragment from Mercury-Atlas 8 Command Module Sigma 7 - Flown 3 Oct. 1962 Category_MG 34 Buffer & Butt Stock and has pocket on hoist

and has pocket on hoist edge for pole

though it is almost worn off due to powder burn

As a consequence

which is actually correctly read as "Type Nine Zero"

as used in WWI

Original U.S. Heat Shield Fragment from Mercury-Atlas 8 Command Module Sigma 7 - Flown 3 Oct. 1962 Category_MG 34 Buffer & Butt Stock and has pocket on hoistOriginal Items: One of a kind set. This is a great piece of U. S. "Space Race" history! Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty un crewed