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Liberty Bell 7 Restoration

Discarded Redstone booster at the Cosmosphere's Space Works facility in Kansas   Interior of impact landing skirt as seen from below the capsule   Capsule interior before preservation; note fabric pouch with dangling pencil lanyard
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Liberty Bell 7 being removed from transport container for the first time since recovery  
Liberty Bell 7 handing in the Cosmosphere restoration facility in Hutchinson, Kansas in late 1999
  
Rene-41 heat shingle showing capsule's name
         
Survival kit partially opened in situ  
Flashlight and "Swizzle" stick in situ
  
Salt coated capsule's titanium shell before cleaning
         
Buck Buckingham working on a capsule part at the Cosmosphere  
Mercury Orbital Chart (left) and post flight checklist showing grease pencil markings
  
Dye marker canister before cleaning (the dents were caused by the ROV's gripper)
         
Assorted gauges with faces shattered by water pressure  
Imploded inert gas sphere (for Reaction Control System)
  
Cleaned elapsed time indicator
         
Cleaned stainless steel capsule recovery cable  
Morphine and motion sickness syringes from survival kit
  
Attitude indicator
         
Assorted items from capsule survival kit  
Assorted capsule electrical wiring bundles
  
Grissom's Randall survival knife before cleaning
         
Capsule exterior showing national markings  
Liberty Bell 7's interior after cleaning and reassembly
  
Capsule exterior showing the famous "crack" and observation window
         
   
Cleaned optical periscope before installation
    

 

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