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Mercury Orbit Chart MOC-6, for the Mercury Atlas 9 mission. USAF Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, February 1963. 10.5 x 34 in., color. Plots all 22 planned earth orbits of the mission and gives overlapping longitudinal coverage (0 to 360 degrees) and latitude coverage from 45 degrees north and south with circular plots representing the ground communication coverage areas. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY GORDON COOPER at the bottom center with: "The 22 orbits for Faith 7 Gordon Cooper." He has added the date and time of his launch at the Cape Canaveral area and "Splashdown at 22-1, 16 May 63" at the splashdown bull's eye just northeast of Midway Island in the Pacific.