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The four-inch spaceflight: How Mercury-Redstone 1 nearly ended America’s first human space program
In 1960, NASA’s Mercury Redstone 1 test rose just four inches off the pad, leaving a fully fueled rocket armed and dangerously unstable. The humiliating failure exposed how fragile early American ...
On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee named Ham became the first hominid to travel into space, marking a critical milestone in ...
On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee by the name of Ham blasted off on a Mercury-Redstone rocket and became the first hominid to go to space. Ham reached an altitude of 157 miles during a 16 and a ...
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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Alan Shepard and Mercury-Redstone 3, the American spaceflight that came 23 days too late
In May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3, just weeks after Yuri Gagarin’s historic orbital flight. This video explores how close the United States ...
The Redstone engine is one of the most significant developments in US rocket technology. This collection consists of 36 pages of 17 x 11 inch schematic drawings of the Redstone launch vehicle's ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of twenty-one U.S. Navy photographs compiled for the press kit prepared for the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) mission as well ...
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