On March 24, 1961, NASA's Mercury Redstone rocket launched on its last uncrewed flight before it started sending astronauts into space. The mission was known as the Mercury Redstone Booster ...
From a Cape Canaveral blockhouse the seven Mercury astronauts watched tensely last week as the countdown neared zero. Atop a towering Redstone rocket rested the one-ton Mercury space capsule of the ...
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The Mercury Redstone 1 "Four Inch Flight", the failed launch that taught NASA how to reach space
Mercury Redstone 1 was meant to prove America could reliably launch a human rated capsule, but the rocket lifted just four inches and left a fully fueled vehicle sitting dangerously armed on the pad.
Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...
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