For Mercury Redstone 4, the plan was to repeat the flight of Mercury Redstone 3 and test the heavily modified Mercury spacecraft that had integrated the design demands of the Mercury Seven astronauts.

On this day in 1960, the first mission of the Mercury Program successfully launched into space. It’s mission? Test the hardware that would later be used ...

On March 24, 1961, NASA's Mercury Redstone rocket launched on its last uncrewed flight before it started sending astronauts into space. The mission was known as the Mercury Redstone Booster ...

Huntsville and Redstone Arsenal are more than prepared to handle the influx of new residents, jobs and work that's coming ...

HUNTSVILLE Ala. — The restoration of the rockets at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center has officially begun. The first parts of some of the historic rockets have been taken in for restoration, … ...

mercury-redstone-4-grissom-60th-events02 — The Cosmosphere space museum in Kansas will offer limited edition Liberty Bell 7 shirts and patches on the 60th anniversary of the July 21, 1961 ...

Gus Grissom, was one of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts and became the second American to go to space on July 21, 1961. See photos from his mission here!

Summary This is a model of unknown scale of the Mercury-Redstone, the launch vehicle for the initial missions in the nation's first manned spaceflight program, Project Mercury. NASA modified the ...

View Mercury Redstone 4 Large format the liftoff of the second American in space Gus Grissom on board Liberty 7 by NASA on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by NASA.

He named it Freedom 7, the number signifying the seven Mercury astronauts; NASA called the mission Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3). Lofted by a Redstone rocket, Shepard and his capsule attained a maximum ...

From a Cape Canaveral blockhouse the seven Mercury astronauts watched tensely last week as the countdown neared zero. Atop a towering Redstone rocket rested the one-ton Mercury space capsule of the ...