Deke's Delta 7

Jan Philips wrote:

Deke's Mercury spaceflight would have been named Delta 7. Was a
Mercury spacecraft ever painted with that name?

To the best of my knowledge, no. You might go the the Delta 7 paper
models site on the web. The creator has some beautiful paper Mercury
capsule models for sale on a CD, and he may well have crafted one to
look like Deke would have flown. There are also some beautiful
Gemini's, a freebies of "Columbia", and a freebies of MR-4.

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Deke's Mercury spaceflight would have been named Delta 7. Was a
Mercury spacecraft ever painted with that name?

Nope. As the spacecraft that was to be Deke's became Scott Carpenter's Aurora
7.

Just glancing through the appropriate section of "Deke!" all he says is
that he had selected the name Delta 7. I seem to recall reading
something at some point about Delta 7 being painted onto Spacecraft 18
and then being re-painted to Aurora 7 after the pilot change, but I could
be confusing that with the story that Al Shepard had gotten Freedom 7 II
painted on the spacecraft that would have flown MA-10.

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mb-m03.aol.com asked--

Deke's Mercury spaceflight would have been named Delta 7. Was a Mercury
spacecraft ever painted with that name?

No. As far as I can tell, Deke never even revealed his choice of the "Delta 7"
name until 1991.....

Michael Cassutt

Michael Cassutt wrote:
mb-m03.aol.com asked--


Deke's Mercury spaceflight would have been named Delta 7. Was a Mercury

spacecraft ever painted with that name?

No. As far as I can tell, Deke never even revealed his choice of the "Delta 7"
name until 1991.....

Michael Cassutt



I can't provide a cite, but I'd heard that it was Delta 7 since I
was a kid (since at least the mid-late 60's)

Brett