Sixty-one years after it stood ready to send NASA’s last one-man mission into Earth orbit, the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9) rocket is standing again. A replica of astronaut Gordon Cooper’s 1963 ride into space is now part of the vertical displays in the missile gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The exhibit is comprised of a recently-restored authentic Atlas missile and a mockup Mercury capsule with its launch escape tower.