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A backup Mariner spacecraft hangs in the National Air and Space Museum’s Milestones of Flight gallery. 

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Beginning in 1961, U.S. manned space missions were controlled from this room, "Mercury Control," at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Unflown duplicate of Pioneer 4, an early satellite designed for lunar exploration. 

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A Mercury astronaut used this mechanical device to determine his position relative to the Earth below.

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Beginning in 1961, NASA used this quartz oscillator as the main timing and radio frequency standard at the Goldstone tracking station.

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