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    Mercury-Redstone 3, or Freedom 7, was the first United States human spaceflight, on May 5, 1961, piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard. It was the first crewed...
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    Mercury-Redstone BD was an uncrewed booster development flight in the U.S. Mercury program. It was launched on March 24, 1961, from Launch Complex 5 at...
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    Mercury-Redstone 1A (MR-1A) was launched on December 19, 1960 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission objectives of this uncrewed suborbital...
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    Mercury-Redstone 1 (MR-1) was the first Mercury-Redstone uncrewed flight test in Project Mercury and the first attempt to launch a Mercury spacecraft with...
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    Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) was the test flight of the Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle just prior to the first crewed American space mission in Project...
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  • The Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, designed for NASA's Project Mercury, was the first American crewed space booster. It was used for six sub-orbital...
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    Mercury-Redstone 4 was the second United States human spaceflight, on July 21, 1961. The suborbital Project Mercury flight was launched with a Mercury-Redstone...
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    ship. Mercury crewed launches John Glenn in orbit, 1962 (Mercury-Atlas 6) Alan Shepard's 1961 recovery seen from helicopter (Mercury-Redstone 3) The number...
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    The Juno 1 version of the Redstone launched Explorer 1, the first U.S. orbital satellite in 1958 and the Mercury-Redstone variation carried the first...
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    veteran of the suborbital Mercury-Redstone 3 mission in 1961. However, it was cancelled after the success of the one-day Mercury-Atlas 9 mission in May 1963...
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  • Redstone 3 may refer to: Mercury-Redstone 3, a 1961 spaceflight Redstone 3, codename for the 2017 Microsoft Windows 10 version 1709 update This disambiguation...
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  • Mercury 3 or variants may refer to: Mercury-Redstone 3, a spacecraft of Project Mercury Mercury(III), an unknown compound of the element Mercury Mercury...
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    Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 5 (category Project Mercury)
    used for various Redstone and Jupiter launches. It is most well known as the launch site for NASA's 1961 suborbital Mercury-Redstone 3 flight, which made...
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    Project Mercury, it was the fifth human spaceflight, preceded by Soviet orbital flights Vostok 1 and 2 and American sub-orbital flights Mercury-Redstone 3 and...
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    to PGM-11 Redstone. Redstone Army Command site NASA Documents relating to Redstone and Mercury Projects Redstone Image Collection Redstone from Encyclopedia...
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    the Redstone Arsenal and Convair, who built the Redstone and Atlas boosters used by Project Mercury. The astronauts affected the design of the Mercury spacecraft...
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  • MR3 (redirect from MR-3)
    MR3 or MR-3 may refer to: MegaRace 3, a 2002 video game Mercury-Redstone 3, the first American human spaceflight Monster Rancher 3, a 2001 video game MR3...
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    Alan Shepard (category Mercury Seven)
    the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts in 1959, and in May 1961 he made the first crewed Project Mercury flight, Mercury-Redstone 3, in a spacecraft...
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    returned a crew to Earth), and the eight sub-orbital human spaceflights: Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4, X-15 flights 90 and 91, SpaceShipOne flights 15P, 16P and 17P...
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  • War. Carriers recovered spacecraft after splashdown, including the Mercury-Redstone 3 and Apollo 11 missions. The lead ship of a new class, the Gerald R...
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    of the urine containment device that Shepard did not have on his Mercury-Redstone 3 flight (forcing him to relieve himself during a long countdown hold)...
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  • Freedom honors Freedom 7, the space capsule used by Alan Shepard's Mercury Redstone 3, the first United States human spaceflight mission. The call sign...
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    In contrast, the Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle used on Freedom 7, the first crewed American spaceflight, was approximately 11 feet (3.4 m) longer than...
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    Redstone missile, Jupiter-C sounding rocket, Juno I launch vehicle and Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle. It was declared an Alabama Historic Civil Engineering...
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    name also honors Freedom 7, the space capsule used by Alan Shepard's Mercury Redstone 3, the first United States human spaceflight mission (May 5, 1961)....
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    team successfully launched Alan Shepard into space. He named his Mercury-Redstone 3 Freedom 7. The Marshall Center's first major program was the development...
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    American astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom aboard their respective Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4 missions. Titov's number of orbits and flight time would not...
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    Fame in 1976. He oversaw a total of 25 crewed space flights, from Mercury-Redstone 3 to Apollo 15.[citation needed] In 1971, Gilruth, along with the Apollo...
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    Earth) would be: period = ( semi-major axis R ) 3 2 × period of low Earth orbit = ( 1 + sin ⁡ θ 2 ) 3 2 2 π R g {\displaystyle {\text{period}}=\left({\frac...
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    NASA). Retrieved 22 June 2015. "Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7)". NASA. 1 November 2011. Retrieved 22 June 2015. "Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7)". NASA....
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