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Mercury-Redstone 2
Redstone · Test Flight
1961Launch Complex 5, Cape Canaveral
Mission
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 Mercury. Carrying a chimpanzee named Ham on a suborbital flight, Mercury spacecraft Number 5 was launched at 16:55 UTC on January 31, 1961 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The capsule and Ham landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean 16 minutes and 39 seconds after launch.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- NASA
- Rocket
- Redstone
- Orbit
- Sub
- Pad
- Launch Complex 5
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2