MERCURY 7 GONDOLA IS HOME! Multi-Cache

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psuhockey73: It sorrows me to archive this because of the historical significance, but I am headed in knee surgery and will not be able reset stage one on oreviewer's schedule.

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Hidden : 5/10/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Special thanks to AG3L for placing this cache. I have adopted it and hope to do as good a job as he did. This one is special because of the amazing history attached to it. No credit without signature.

THE MERCURY 7 GONDOLA IS HOME!! (visit link)

This is the 29th in a series of caches to commemorate our towns 300th Anniversary: 1711-2011. The Tricentennial Committee sponsored a Township wide geocache hunt which was held in May 2011. Warminster Township has asked to have a geocache event in Fall 2012 in conjunction with planting another 300 trees in the Warminster Community Park - stay tuned.
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May 5, 2011 was a historic day for Bucks County as the original gondola of the Johnsville Centrifuge that was used for training America’s early space heroes returned to Warminster. It had spent the last 47 years at the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration and Storage Facility of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Suitland, Maryland.
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All of America’s pioneering astronauts, including Alan Shepard, John Glenn and Neil Armstrong trained at the Johnsville Centrifuge prior to their historic space missions. In 1963 the gondola was replaced by a larger gondola to accommodate the three wide configuration needed to train for the Apoll
o missions. Shortly after its replacement it was transferred to the Smithsonian by the US Navy and has remained at the Garber facility ever since.
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A special “Welcome Home” ceremony was held at the Bucks County Visitors Center for the Gondola on the date that marked the 50th Anniversary of the Mercury mission that placed Alan Shepard as the First American in Space. The move of the Gondola was made possible through a grant from History’s® Save Our History® initiative in partnership with Comcast. Each astronaut in the X-15, Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs completed the training here in Warminster.
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Geocache
Stage ONE - At this location you will find the coordinates of Stage Two. There is no log here to sign. Please re-hide the container so that it doesn't disappear - be stealthy.
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Stage TWO. The log is near a recently delivered artifact from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Now go find it! See video (visit link)
Look around and always be aware of the muggles.
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Please take a photo of the Mercury capsule with a photo of you in the foreground.
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***FTF*** Congratulations Kaliyah on the first
to find. I think that you have walked the runway many times also.
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Rich / AG3L
Warminster Tricentennial Committee
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fgntr Bar: Snpr Oevfgby Ebnq . Fgntr Gjb: Jngpu ivqrb, naq guvax Fgbire #1.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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