FAITH 7 ORBITAL CHART – Mercury Orbit Chart MOC-6, 1st Edition . USAF Aeronautical Chart and Information Center for NASA, February 1963.

FAITH 7 ORBITAL CHART – Mercury Orbit Chart MOC-6, 1st Edition . USAF Aeronautical Chart and Information Center for NASA, February 1963. Orbital chart on which Gordon Cooper records Faith 7 launch and landing times, along with other flight comments. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Gordon COOPER: “ I have liftoff and the clock is operating … Faith 7 on the way! " All 22 orbits of the Mercury Atlas 9 flight are plotted with circles representing the ground coverage foot print of the Mercury world-wide tracking stations. Cooper inscribed the date of his launch near the Cape Canaveral area of the chart with: " Launch – 15 May 63 " and his splashdown site designation and date: " Splashdown @ C-22, 16 May 63 " near the splashdown bull's eye close to Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean. Color Earth map, 10.5 by 35.5 inches.