Mercury-Redstone 1A (MR-1A) was launched on December 19, 1960 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission objectives of this uncrewed suborbital...

Mercury-Redstone 1 (MR-1) was the first Mercury-Redstone uncrewed flight test in Project Mercury and the first attempt to launch a Mercury spacecraft with...

The Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, designed for NASA's Project Mercury, was the first American crewed space booster. It was used for six sub-orbital...

The previous Mercury-Redstone mission, MR-1A, flew a trajectory that was too steep with accelerations too high for a human passenger. MR-1A had climbed...

Mercury-Redstone 3, or Freedom 7, was the first United States human spaceflight, on May 5, 1961, piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard. It was the first crewed...

Mercury-Redstone BD was an uncrewed booster development flight in the U.S. Mercury program. It was launched on March 24, 1961, from Launch Complex 5 at...

Boilerplate, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center MR-1 & MR-1A (Spacecraft No 2), Kennedy Space Center Mercury-Redstone 2 (Spacecraft No. 5), California Science Center...

inches (100 mm) Mercury-Redstone 1A, successful uncrewed flight Mercury-Redstone 2, carried Ham, a chimpanzee Mercury-Redstone BD, booster development...

Grissom's July, 1961, Mercury-Redstone 4 flight. The Mercury-Redstone 1 pad abort, Mercury-Redstone 1A, and the January, 1961, Mercury-Redstone 2 with a chimpanzee...

Little Joe 1A, a 1959 unmanned NASA launch Mercury-Redstone 1A, a 1969 NASA mission Packard 1A-1500, a 1929 piston aircraft engine Shin Meiwa US-1A, a Japanese...

Moffett Field, California. The center has the following exhibits: The Mercury-Redstone 1A capsule, launched in 1960 in a suborbital flight, which achieved...

(disambiguation) Mercury-Redstone 1, a 1960 space flight test Mercury-Redstone 1A Mercury-Atlas 1, a 1960 space flight test Mercury-Scout 1, a 1961 spacecraft...

Redstone missile, Jupiter-C sounding rocket, Juno I launch vehicle and Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle. It was declared an Alabama Historic Civil Engineering...

method has been used primarily by American crewed capsules including NASA’s Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Orion along with the private SpaceX Dragon. It is also...

the uncrewed flight of Mercury-Redstone 1A on 19 December 1960. The first spaceflight by an American was on Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7), recovered...

fit in submarines. Jupiter traces its history ultimately to the PGM-11 Redstone missile, the US's first nuclear ballistic missile. While it was entering...

Julie Andrews as Lady Guinevere. Redstone launch vehicle No. 3 was shipped to Cape Canaveral for the Mercury-Redstone 1A mission. Born: Julianne Moore (stage...

recovery ship for the Mercury-Redstone 1A uncrewed space capsule, the first flight of the Redstone rocket as part of Project Mercury. Her helicopters retrieved...

Mercury-Atlas was a subprogram of Project Mercury: 1  that included most of the flights and tests using the Atlas LV-3B launch vehicle. The Atlas was...

Several Mercury capsules were used on multiple flights, including the capsule used on Mercury-Redstone 1 and Mercury-Redstone 1A, the Mercury capsule...

St. John Ambulance in Singapore. Mercury spacecraft No. 2 was delivered to Cape Canaveral for the Mercury-Redstone 1A mission. Born: Jon Landau, American...

28°27′47″N 80°34′57″W / 28.463082°N 80.582562°W / 28.463082; -80.582562 The Mercury Control Center (also known as Building 1385 or simply MCC) provided control...

the 15-minute sub-orbital flight of Mercury-Redstone 3 on May 5. After Grissom's similar flight of Mercury-Redstone 4 on July 21, the capsule's hatch blows...

16:15 Redstone MRLV Cape Canaveral LC-5 US Air Force Mercury-Redstone 1A NASA Suborbital Test flight 17:00 Successful Reflight of Mercury-Redstone 1, apogee:...

inch mission." On 21 November 1960 during which the first uncrewed Mercury-Redstone rocket, the rocket only rose up a mere 4 inches before settling back...

Inactive Jupiter-C, Redstone, Mercury-Redstone. The site of all six crewed and uncrewed Mercury-Redstone launches used for Project Mercury. Now part of the...

women, sometimes called Astrowives, whose husbands were members of the Mercury 7 group of astronauts. The group included Annie Glenn, Betty Grissom, Louise...

launched Explorer 1, America's first artificial satellite, in 1958, and Mercury-Redstone 3, America's first human space mission, in 1961. In the summer of 1950...

the Mercury boilerplate spacecraft fitted with impact skirt, straps and cables, and a heat shield. 1961 March 24 – A successful Mercury-Redstone BD (MR-3)...

booster for Project Mercury, the agency found that the Atlas rockets would cost approximately US$2.5 million each and that even the Redstone would cost about...