Post-landing Mercury-Atlas 5
mercury spacecraft # 9, used in mercury-atlas 5 mission, on display @ museum of life , science, in durham, north carolina.
the spacecraft , enos both found have survived mission in condition, although chimp had removed of medical electrodes , urine collection device body.
on november 4, 1962, enos died of dysentery caused shigellosis, resistant antibiotics of time. had been under constant observation 2 months before death. pathologists @ holloman reported found no symptom attributed or related space flight year before.
the mercury spacecraft had been qualified carry human orbit.
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