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 ...

There was a lot riding on this launch: it’s predecessor, Mercury Redstone 1, failed, rising only four inches before the engines shut down. It didn’t explode, but the escape rocket jettisoned.

By November 21, 1960, the first Mercury-Redstone, MR-1, was ready for a test launch, with an empty capsule on top. The engine roared, the rocket started to rise…. then immediately settled back ...

On May 5, 1961, NASA launched the Mercury Redstone 3 rocket to make Alan Shepard the first American in space on the historic Freedom 7 mission. See some amazing vintage photos from the from the ...

NASA . The unmanned Mercury-Redstone 1 launch test on November 21, 1960, began and ended when the engine cut off prematurely after the rocket rose a few inches from the pad.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...