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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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    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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    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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    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 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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  • 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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  • (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...
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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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    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 Mercury-Redstone 1 mission on November 21, 1960, the escape system unintentionally blasted off from the Mercury spacecraft after the Redstone booster...
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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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    Kraft, as a Mission Control procedures officer for the uncrewed Mercury-Redstone 1 (MR-1) test (dubbed in Kranz's autobiography as the "Four-Inch Flight"...
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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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  •  413. ISBN 1-56347-649-5. NASA. The Mercury-Redstone Project, p. 3-2, 4-42. History of the Redstone Missile System, p. 60 History of the Redstone Missile...
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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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  • I-related Mercury-Redstone 1, an unsuccessful unmanned American space mission PNKD, or myofibrillogenesis regulator 1 Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, a bacterium...
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    Several Mercury capsules were used on multiple flights, including the capsule used on Mercury-Redstone 1 and Mercury-Redstone 1A, the Mercury capsule...
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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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    Ham (chimpanzee) (category Project Mercury)
    Ham flew a suborbital flight on the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission, part of the U.S. space program's Project Mercury. Ham's name is an acronym for the laboratory...
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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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    spaceflight The launch escape system fires following the failed launch of Mercury-Redstone 1 Orbital launches First 4 February Last 22 December Total 38 Successes...
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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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  • Diori as its first president. Redstone launch vehicle No. 1 was delivered to Cape Canaveral for the Mercury-Redstone 1 mission. NASA test pilot Joseph...
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    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...
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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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    Julie Andrews as Lady Guinevere. Redstone launch vehicle No. 3 was shipped to Cape Canaveral for the Mercury-Redstone 1A mission. Born: Julianne Moore...
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  • 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 also...
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    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...
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