1961 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mercury-Redstone BD
successRedstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone BD
Mercury-Redstone BD was an uncrewed booster development flight in the U.S. Mercury program. It was launched on March 24, 1961 from Launch Complex 5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission used a boilerplate Mercury spacecraft and Redstone MRLV-5.
Overview
- Date / time
- March 24, 1961 at 05:30 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 5
- Mission
- Mercury-Redstone BD
- Mission type
- Test Flight
- Orbit achieved
- Suborbital