Archive record · video

NASA-UAP-D013, Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962

Source label

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Catalog date

2026-05-22

Record type

video

Record summary

During the fourth crewed spaceflight and second orbital flight of Project Mercury, Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7), Aurora 7 pilot Scott Carpenter describes white particles in view that appear to move at “random” and “look exactly like snowflakes.” He describes these phenomena as reflective, and that some seemed to move faster than the Aurora 7 spacecraft.

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