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    Mercury-Redstone 4 was the second United States human spaceflight, on July 21, 1961. The suborbital Project Mercury flight was launched with a Mercury-Redstone...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) was the test flight of the Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle just prior to the first crewed American space mission in Project...
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  • 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...
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    with Miss Sam, 1960 Mercury-Redstone 1: launch escape system lift-off after 4'' launch, 1960 Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham, 1961 Mercury-Atlas 5: Enos, 1961...
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  • Redstone 4 may refer to: Mercury-Redstone 4, a 1961 spaceflight Redstone 4, codename for the 2018 Microsoft Windows 10 version 1803 update This disambiguation...
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  • The Juno 1 version of the Redstone launched Explorer 1, the first U.S. orbital satellite in 1958 and the Mercury-Redstone variation carried the first...
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    Project Mercury, it was the fifth human spaceflight, preceded by Soviet orbital flights Vostok 1 and 2 and American sub-orbital flights Mercury-Redstone 3 and...
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  • of the element Mercury Mercury IV, a 1929 version of the Bristol Mercury aircraft engine Mercury (disambiguation) Mercury-Redstone 4, the second U.S...
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    Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 5 (category Project Mercury)
    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...
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    Several Mercury dimes were flown into space on July 21, 1961, on the Mercury-Redstone 4 sub-orbital mission, the second manned flight of Project Mercury and...
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    Redstone missile, Jupiter-C sounding rocket, Juno I launch vehicle and Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle. It was declared an Alabama Historic Civil Engineering...
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    to PGM-11 Redstone. Redstone Army Command site NASA Documents relating to Redstone and Mercury Projects Redstone Image Collection Redstone from Encyclopedia...
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    the Redstone Arsenal and Convair, who built the Redstone and Atlas boosters used by Project Mercury. The astronauts affected the design of the Mercury spacecraft...
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    crew to Earth), and the eight sub-orbital human spaceflights: Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4, X-15 flights 90 and 91, SpaceShipOne flights 15P, 16P and 17P...
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    Gus Grissom (category Mercury Seven)
    On July 21, 1961, Grissom was pilot of the second Project Mercury flight, Mercury-Redstone 4. Grissom named his spacecraft Liberty Bell 7 after the Liberty...
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    dynamic pressure on the front of the plane is 1.586 pounds per square inch (109.4 hPa), about 41% of the static pressure (3.84 pounds per square inch (265 hPa))...
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    Alan Shepard (category Mercury Seven)
    the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts in 1959, and in May 1961 he made the first crewed Project Mercury flight, Mercury-Redstone 3, in a spacecraft...
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  • this case the lowest required delta-v, to reach 100 km altitude, is about 1.4 km/s. Moving slower, with less free-fall, would require more delta-v.[citation...
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    Construction" (PDF). NASA (Presentation). p. 3. "Two men die from injuries in Redstone Arsenal explosion", WAFF.com, 5 June 2010 "Space shuttle worker dies in...
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  • Freedom honors Freedom 7, the space capsule used by Alan Shepard's Mercury Redstone 3, the first United States human spaceflight mission. The call sign...
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    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...
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    recovered the next flight, Mercury-Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7), on 21 July 1961, and she was the primary recovery ship for Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7)...
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    Grissom's Mercury-Redstone 4 flight, with a one-piece, outward-opening hatch to make egress easier at the end of the mission. The Mercury-Gemini practice...
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    veteran of the suborbital Mercury-Redstone 3 mission in 1961. However, it was cancelled after the success of the one-day Mercury-Atlas 9 mission in May 1963...
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    John Glenn (category Mercury Seven)
    two crewed Project Mercury flights, the sub-orbital missions Mercury-Redstone 3 and Mercury-Redstone 4. Glenn was selected for Mercury-Atlas 6, NASA's first...
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    Command Pilot Virgil "Gus" Grissom, who had flown in space on the Mercury-Redstone 4 mission in 1961 and as commander of the Gemini 3 in 1965, and Pilot...
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  • The Right Stuff (film) (category Project Mercury)
    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...
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