Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone 1A

Launch Provider & Rocket

• Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Government)
• Rocket: Redstone MRLV — Redstone family

Mission

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 flight were to qualify the spacecraft for space flight and qualify the system for an upcoming primate suborbital flight.

• Type: Test Flight
• Orbit: Suborbital (Sub)

Launch Site

• Pad: Launch Complex 5
• Location: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
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Program

• Mercury — Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. (Wikipedia)