Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone 1A
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.
Mercury No.2 is the Mercury capsule used for the Mercury-Redsone 1 mission which failed on launch.
The Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, designed for NASA's Project Mercury, was the first American manned space booster. It was used for six sub-orbital Mercury flights from 1960–61; culminating with the launch of the first, and 11 weeks later, the second American (and the second and third humans) in space. The four subsequent Mercury human spaceflights used the more powerful Atlas booster to enter low Earth orbit. A member of the Redstone rocket family, it was derived from the U.S. Army's Redstone ballistic missile and the first stage of the related Jupiter-C launch vehicle; but to human-rate it, the structure and systems were modified to improve safety and reliability.
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Mission Profile
Mercury-Redstone 1A was a Redstone MRLV mission operated by National Aeronautics and Space Administration that lifted off from Launch Complex 5, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA on December 19, 1960. The flight carried its payload on a test flight mission to Suborbital. It was flown as part of the Mercury program. The launch was a success.