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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 flight of Project Mercury . The project had the ultimate objective of putting an astronaut into orbit around the Earth and returning him safely.
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 flights from 1960–1961; culminating with the launch of the first, and 11 weeks later, the second American (and the second and third humans) in space.
Mercury-Redstone 1 Engine shutdown caused by improper separation of electrical cables; [254] vehicle rose 4 in (10 cm) and settled back on the pad. [255] [n 35] Mercury-Redstone 1A First flight of Mercury / Redstone. Recovered by USS Valley Forge. [256] Altitude: 130 mi (210 km) [109] Mercury-Redstone 2 Carried the chimpanzee Ham on suborbital ...
When NASA needed a booster for Project Mercury, the agency found that the Atlas rockets would cost approximately US$2.5 million each and that even the Redstone would cost about $1 million per launch. The managers of the Mercury program recognized that the numerous early test flights would have to be accomplished by a far less expensive booster ...
The site of all six crewed and uncrewed Mercury-Redstone launches used for Project Mercury. Now part of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum. Pioneer 4, Mercury-Redstone 3, Mercury-Redstone 4: Launch Complex 6: Inactive Redstone, Jupiter
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 5 (LC-5) was a launch site at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida 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 Alan Shepard the first American in space.
The first member of the Redstone family was the PGM-11 Redstone missile, from which all subsequent variations of the Redstone were derived. 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 two U.S. astronauts into space in 1961.
Redstone 3 may refer to: Mercury-Redstone 3, a 1961 spaceflight; Redstone 3, codename for the 2017 Microsoft Windows 10 version 1709 update