Original U.S. Heat Shield Fragment from Mercury-Atlas 8 Command Module Sigma 7 - Flown 3 Oct. 1962 Category_MG 34 Buffer & Butt Stock The fore end has been

The fore end has been half-stocked

which is actually correctly read as "Type Nine Zero"

with a wooden ramrod held under the barrel

Years of Manufacture: circa 1818

as used in WWI

Original U.S. Heat Shield Fragment from Mercury-Atlas 8 Command Module Sigma 7 - Flown 3 Oct. 1962 Category_MG 34 Buffer & Butt Stock The fore end has beenOriginal Items: One of a kind set. This is a great piece of U. S. "Space Race" history! Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty un crewed