LaunchesMercury-Redstone 1A
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Mercury-Redstone 1A
Redstone · Test Flight
1960Launch Complex 5, Cape Canaveral
Mission
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.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- NASA
- Rocket
- Redstone
- Orbit
- Sub
- Pad
- Launch Complex 5
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2