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...

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...

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...

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...

ship. Mercury crewed launches John Glenn in orbit, 1962 (Mercury-Atlas 6) Alan Shepard's 1961 recovery seen from helicopter (Mercury-Redstone 3) The number...

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...

Redstone 3 may refer to: Mercury-Redstone 3, a 1961 spaceflight Redstone 3, codename for the 2017 Microsoft Windows 10 version 1709 update This disambiguation...

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...

Mercury 3 or variants may refer to: Mercury-Redstone 3, a spacecraft of Project Mercury Mercury(III), an unknown compound of the element Mercury Mercury...

MR3 or MR-3 may refer to: MegaRace 3, a 2002 video game Mercury-Redstone 3, the first American human spaceflight Monster Rancher 3, a 2001 video game MR3...

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...

to PGM-11 Redstone. Redstone Army Command site NASA Documents relating to Redstone and Mercury Projects Redstone Image Collection Redstone from Encyclopedia...

used for various Redstone and Jupiter launches. It is most well known as the launch site for NASA's 1961 suborbital Mercury-Redstone 3 flight, which made...

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...

returned a 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...

War. Carriers recovered spacecraft after splashdown, including the Mercury-Redstone 3 and Apollo 11 missions. The lead ship of a new class, the Gerald R...

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...

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...

Fame in 1976. He oversaw a total of 25 crewed space flights, from Mercury-Redstone 3 to Apollo 15.[citation needed] In 1971, Gilruth, along with the Apollo...

American astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom aboard their respective Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4 missions. Titov's number of orbits and flight time would not...

of the urine containment device that Shepard did not have on his Mercury-Redstone 3 flight (forcing him to relieve himself during a long countdown hold)...

In contrast, the Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle used on Freedom 7, the first crewed American spaceflight, was approximately 11 feet (3.4 m) longer than...

team successfully launched Alan Shepard into space. He named his Mercury-Redstone 3 Freedom 7. The Marshall Center's first major program was the development...

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

Earth) would be: period = ( semi-major axis R ) 3 2 × period of low Earth orbit = ( 1 + sin ⁡ θ 2 ) 3 2 2 π R g {\displaystyle {\text{period}}=\left({\frac...

Saturn I, AS-20x for Saturn IB, and AS-50x for Saturn V (compare Mercury-Redstone 3, Mercury-Atlas 6) to designate and plan all missions, rather than numbering...

name also honors Freedom 7, the space capsule used by Alan Shepard's Mercury Redstone 3, the first United States human spaceflight mission (May 5, 1961)....