1960 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mercury-Redstone 1A
successRedstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone 1A
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.
Overview
- Date / time
- December 19, 1960 at 04:15 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 5
- Mission
- Mercury-Redstone 1A
- Mission type
- Test Flight
- Orbit achieved
- Suborbital