Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone 2

Launch Provider & Rocket

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

Mission

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. Carrying a chimpanzee named Ham on a suborbital flight, Mercury spacecraft Number 5 was launched at 16:55 UTC on January 31, 1961 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The capsule and Ham landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean 16 minutes and 39 seconds after launch.

• 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)