flown missionSuccess
Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone 2
National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationLaunch Complex 5 — Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Mercury-Redstone 2
- Type
- Test Flight
- Target orbit
- Suborbital (Sub)
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.
schedule
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Redstone MRLV
- Family
- Redstone
- Variant
- MRLV
- Provider
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Type
- Government
- Country
- USA
launch site
- Pad
- Launch Complex 5
- Location
- Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/New_York
- Coordinates
- 28.4394, -80.5733