Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone BD

Launch Provider & Rocket

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

Mission

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 Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission used a boilerplate Mercury spacecraft and Redstone MRLV-5.

• 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)