Mercury-Redstone BD
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title:
Mercury-Redstone BD
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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 Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission used a boilerplate Mercury spacecraft and Redstone MRLV-5. After the problems that developed during the MR-2 mission carrying the chimpanzee Ham, it was apparent that the Redstone needed further development before it could be trusted to carry a human passenger. Dr. Wernher von Braun added Mercury-Redstone BD t
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Additional uncrewed booster development flight
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_BD
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2023-09-25T17:32:40Z
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