For Mercury Redstone 4, the plan was to repeat the flight of Mercury Redstone 3 and test the heavily modified Mercury spacecraft that had integrated the design demands of the Mercury Seven astronauts.

Mercury-Redstone 4 backup pilot John Glenn talks with astronaut Gus Grissom, who is suited and ready to enter the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft. The launch was cancelled shortly thereafter due to poor ...

mercury-redstone-4-grissom-60th-events02 — The Cosmosphere space museum in Kansas will offer limited edition Liberty Bell 7 shirts and patches on the 60th anniversary of the July 21, 1961 ...

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 May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space in the Mercury MR-3 capsule. He named it Freedom 7, the number signifying the seven Mercury astronauts; NASA called the mission ...

More than 60 years ago, Mercury 7 astronaut Alan Shepard became the second person—and the first American—to fly into space. At the time, he named his spacecraft “Freedom.” To honor that ...

HUNTSVILLE Ala. — The restoration of the rockets at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center has officially begun. The first parts of some of the historic rockets have been taken in for restoration, … ...

View The perfect launch but dramatic loss of the Liberty 7 capsule carrying the second American in space Gus Grissom two photos, NASA Mercury Redstone 4, 21 July 1961 by NASA on artnet. Browse ...

The spacecraft travelled downrange of the launch facility 375 km in a flight that lasted 15 minutes and 45 seconds. ... Mercury Redstone 1A, which would test the same things: ...