Mercury-Redstone
The Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle (MRLV), also known as Mercury-Redstone, used the stretched Redstone configuration from the Jupiter-C for six suborbital launches for Project Mercury in 1960 and 61, including America's first two manned spaceflights:
- Mercury-Redstone 1, abort, launched 4 in (100 mm)
- Mercury-Redstone 1A, successful unmanned flight
- Mercury-Redstone 2, carried Ham the chimpanzee
- Mercury-Redstone BD, booster development - final test before manned flight
- Mercury-Redstone 3, (Freedom 7), first American in space, Alan Shepard
- Mercury-Redstone 4, (Liberty Bell 7), second American in space, Gus Grissom
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