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Mercury-Redstone 4
Redstone · Human Exploration
1961Launch Complex 5, Cape Canaveral
Mission
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 the Liberty Bell 7, and it was piloted by the astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- NASA
- Rocket
- Redstone
- Orbit
- Sub
- Pad
- Launch Complex 5
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2