29 July 1960: Mercury-Atlas 1 lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, carrying an unnamed Mercury capsule atop an Atlas LV-3B rocket; fifty-eight seconds into the flight, the Atlas suffered a catastrophic structural failure; no one on the ground saw the failure, as the booster was obscured by clouds; the capsule crashed into the Atlantic, was salvaged, & the debris reconstructed.
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