Mercury-Redstone 4
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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 Launch Vehicle, MRLV-8. The spacecraft,
Astronaut Gus Grissom climbs into Liberty Bell 7
Virgil Ivan "Gus" GrissomProject Mercury Crewed missions← Mercury-Redstone 3Mercury-Atlas 6 →
Launch of Mercury-Redstone 4 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 5
Grissom is hoisted to safety following the sinking of Liberty Bell 7
Project Mercury
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Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and retur
Mercury-Redstone 4
…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 Launch Vehicle, MRLV-8. The spacecraft, Mercury capsule #11, was nicknamed Liberty Bell 7. It was piloted…
Wallops Island test facility, 1961
Mercury Control Center, Cape Canaveral, 1963
Retropack: Retrorockets with red posigrade rockets
Landing skirt (or bag) deployment: skirt is inflated; on impact the air is pressed out (like an airbag)