On May 5, 1961, about 45 million US television viewers watched as a single-stage Redstone rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral. Mercury Redstone 3 carried Alan Shepard on a 15-minute flight to ...

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 ...

This is a model of unknown scale of the Mercury-Redstone, the launch vehicle for the initial missions in the nation's first manned spaceflight program, Project Mercury. NASA modified the Army's ...

From its beginning in 1960, engineers at Redstone Arsenal and Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville have led every major rocket propulsion development in American space, powering the launches ...

Since then, Blue Origin has been preparing the rocket for its inaugural launch, ... Where it differs from Shepard's Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket is that the New Shepard rocket can land and be reused.

Where it differs from Shepard's Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket is that the New Shepard rocket can land and be reused. Now Blue Origin hopes to accomplish the same with its multi-stage orbital New Glenn ...

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 ...

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 ...