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Faith 7 recovery area

Also Mercury-Atlas 9 recovery area · Pacific Ocean southeast of Midway Island

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Locator map: Faith 7 recovery area highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypePlace
Coordinates27.3333° N, 176.4333° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
ErasModern era
Locator map: Faith 7 recovery area highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Place
Coordinates
27.3333° N, 176.4333° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
maritime

Summary

The Faith 7 recovery area is an approximate Pacific Ocean map anchor southeast of Midway Island. It represents the historical spacecraft recovery area, not a fixed named geographic feature or the precise station of any individual aircraft.

Sources

  1. Places splashdown about 80 miles southeast of Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean.
  2. Gives a recovery location of 27°20′N, 176°26′W. The point is an approximate recovery-area marker, not a boundary.

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Faith 7 recovery area”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/faith-7-recovery-area/, accessed [date], citing NASA, “Cooper’s Faith 7 Mission Closes Out Project Mercury,” 2023. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-02. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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