Original U.S. Heat Shield Fragment from Mercury-Atlas 8 Command Module Sigma 7 - Flown 3 Oct. 1962 Category_MG 34 Buffer & Butt Stock Years of Manufacture: circa 1818

Years of Manufacture: circa 1818

which is actually correctly read as "Type Nine Zero"

Very limited quantity that was apparently found in storage in northern France and a new arrival at IMA

and is hand painted with multiple signatures and phrases in Japanese and measures approximately 28 x 35 inches

as used in WWI

Original U.S. Heat Shield Fragment from Mercury-Atlas 8 Command Module Sigma 7 - Flown 3 Oct. 1962 Category_MG 34 Buffer & Butt Stock Years of Manufacture: circa 1818Original Items: One of a kind set. This is a great piece of U. S. "Space Race" history! Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty un crewed