The Aurora 7 space capsule on a flat bed trailer truck, at Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, Puerto Rico, after having been recovered at sea. The capsule is offloaded with a crane, placed into a steel cradle dolley, and then rolled onto the ramps and into the cargo hold of a C-124 transport aircraft, for flight back to Cape Canaveral.
The Aurora 7space capsule on the deck of the U.S. Navy Destroyer, USS John R. Pierce (DD-753), which had recovered it from the sea after splashdown, following the Mercury-Atlas 7 orbital mission. Sailors set hook from derrick onto the space capsule and then steady it with lines as is is raised from the ship and transferred by the derrick onto a waiting flat bed trailer.