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Redstone . By:I’isha. The Crew Members. Alan B. Sheppard Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger Dr. Wernher von Braun Alex McCool. Part of Mission.
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Redstone By:I’isha
The Crew Members • Alan B. Sheppard • Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger • Dr. Wernher von Braun • Alex McCool
Part of Mission • Was a rocket mission, launched at 16:55 UTC on January 31, 1961 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral,Florida.Mercury spacecraft #5 carried Ham The Chimp as a passenger on a suborbital space flight launched on Redstone MRLV-2
Purpose of mission • was the first Mercury-Redstone mission in the Mercury program and the first attempt to launch a mercury space craft with the Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle. Intended to be an unmanned sub-orbital flight, it was launched on November 21, 1960 from Capecanaveral , Flordia. The launch failed in a peculiar fashion which has been referred to as the "four-inch flight".