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  2. Mercury-Redstone 1A - Wikipedia

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

  3. Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle - Wikipedia

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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 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.

  4. Mercury-Redstone 1 - Wikipedia

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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 the Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle. Intended to be an uncrewed sub-orbital spaceflight , it was launched on November 21, 1960 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station , Florida .

  5. Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 5 - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. December 1960 - Wikipedia

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    The uncrewed Mercury-Redstone 1A rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral in a repeat of the unsuccessful November 21, 1960, launch of Mercury-Redstone 1. The first successful mission of the Mercury program was made to qualify the spacecraft for launch into space, and to qualify the flight system for the next phase, launching a non-human living ...

  7. 1960 in spaceflight (July–December) - Wikipedia

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    Redstone MRLV: Cape Canaveral LC-5: US Air Force Mercury-Redstone 1: NASA Intended: Suborbital Test flight +2 seconds: Launch failure Engine failure one second after launch, rocket settled back onto launch pad without exploding, spacecraft later reflown as Mercury-Redstone 1A using different rocket. Apogee: 10 centimetres (3.9 in)

  8. Redstone Test Stand - Wikipedia

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    The Redstone Test Stand or Interim Test Stand was used to develop and test fire the Redstone missile, Jupiter-C sounding rocket, Juno I launch vehicle and Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle. It was declared an Alabama Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1979 [ 3 ] and a National Historic Landmark in 1985. [ 2 ]

  9. NASA Gift Shop in Silicon Valley - Wikipedia

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    The Mercury-Redstone 1A capsule, launched in 1960 in a suborbital flight, which achieved an altitude of 130.7 miles. A high-resolution immersive theater with a 14-foot tall and 36-foot wide screen. The theater sometimes shows movies with footage from NASA's explorations of Mars and the planets, and about the contributions of the scientists at ...