Mercury-Redstone 1A
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Mercury-Redstone 1A
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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 flight were to qualify the spacecraft for space flight and qualify the system for an upcoming primate suborbital flight. The spacecraft tested its instrumentation, posigrade rockets, retrorockets and recovery system. The mission was completely successful. The Mercury capsule reached an altitude of 130 miles (210 km) and a range of 235 miles (378 k
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Uncrewed suborbital test-flight of the Mercury spacecraft
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_1A
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2023-11-10T08:29:50Z
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