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	Mercury-Redstone 1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mercury-Redstone 1 (MR-1) was launched on November 21, 1960 from Launch Complex 5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
		Mercury Spacecraft # 2 together with the escape tower from Capsule # 8, and the antenna fairing from Capsule # 10 were reflown on MR-1A.
		This was the first launch attempt for the Mercury-Redstone combination.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mercury-Redstone_1 (371 words)

	Mercury-Atlas 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mercury- Atlas 2 (MA-2) was launched unmanned on February 21, 1961 at 14:10 UTC, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
		Mercury spacecraft # 6 used in the Mercury-Atlas 2 mission, is currently displayed at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX.
		Mercury spacecraft # 6 and Atlas # 67-D were used in the mission.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mercury-Atlas_2 (229 words)

	Project Mercury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Redstone was used for suborbital flights, and Atlas for orbital ones.
		Mercury spacecraft (also called a capsule or space capsule) were very small one-man vehicles; it was said that the Mercury spacecraft were not ridden, they were worn.
		The Mercury spacecraft were designed to be totally controllable from the ground in the event that the space environment impaired the pilot's ability to function.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mercury_program (229 words)

	Mercury-Redstone 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mercury - Redstone 2 (MR-2) was launched at 16:55 UTC on January 31, 1961 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
		Mercury spacecraft # 5 used in the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission, is currently displayed at the California Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles, California.
		Mercury spacecraft # 5 carried Ham the Chimp as a passenger on a suborbital space flight launched on Redstone MRLV-2.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mercury-Redstone_2 (229 words)

	Mercury program
		Mercury spacecraft (also called a capsule or space capsule) were very small one-man vehicles; it was said that the Mercury spacecraft were not ridden, they were worn.
		The Mercury spacecraft were designed to be totally controllable from the ground in the event that the space environment impaired the pilot's ability to function.
		Mercury had seven prime astronauts, all former military test pilots, known as the Mercury 7.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/m/me/mercury_program.html (1660 words)

	Mercury-Redstone 1A - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mercury spacecraft # 2 used in the Mercury-Redstone 1 and Mercury-Redstone 1A missions, is currently displayed at KSC Visitors Complex, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
		Mercury- Redstone 1A (MR-1A) was launched on December 19, 1960 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
		Redstone pitches over 2 deg/s from 90 deg to 45 deg.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mercury-Redstone_1A (436 words)

	The American manned Space Program (Mercury, Gémini, Apollo and Skylab missions)
		The following flight, Mercury Redstone-2, took off the 31 of January of 1961, taking in its interior to a called chimpanzee Ham.
		Mercury Atlas-2 In this occasion, was a suborbital flight destined to prove the integrity of the Mercury cabin during the re-entry, lasted almost 18 minutes.
		The 25 of April of the same year, a new accident with the rocket Mercury Atlas-3 took place; after taking off, the rocket did not follow the trajectory predicted and the cabin was separated automatically of the rocket by means of the emergency system, whereas the carrying projectile was destroyed.
	intercosmos.iespana.es /english/astronautics/astr_eeuu.htm (2988 words)

	The American manned Space Program (Mercury, Gémini, Apollo and Skylab missions)
		The following flight, Mercury Redstone-2, took off the 31 of January of 1961, taking in its interior to a called chimpanzee Ham.
		The following flight of the program, of similars characteristic to the one of Shepard, took place the 21 of July of the same year in the Mercury Redstone-4.
		Mercury Atlas-2 In this occasion, was a suborbital flight destined to prove the integrity of the Mercury cabin during the re-entry, lasted almost 18 minutes.
	intercosmos.iespana.es /english/astronautics/astr_eeuu.htm (2988 words)

	Project Mercury - A Chronology. Part 2 (B)
		Mercury spacecraft No. 5 was delivered to the Marshall Space Flight Center for booster compatibility checks, and was shipped to Cape Canaveral on October 11, 1960, for the Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) ballistic-primate (Ham) mission.
		Mercury spacecraft No. 6 was delivered to Cape Canaveral for the Mercury-Atlas 2 (MA-2) unmanned mission intended to gain data on maximum dynamic pressure and maximum heat on the spacecraft afterbody.
		In considering the possible meteoroid damage to the Mercury spacecraft in orbital flight, it was concluded by the Space Task Group that damage likelihood was small even during periods of meteor showers.
	history.nasa.gov /SP-4001/p2b.htm (12529 words)

	Spaceflight :Project Mercury
		Redstone rockets, designed by the rocket team of Wernher von Braun in Huntsville, Alabama, were used for the suborbital flights.
		It was 6.8 feet (2 meters) long, 6.2 feet (2 meters) in diameter, and had a 19.2-foot, (5.8-meter) escape tower with a solid-rocket motor fastened to the cylinder.
		As the authors of This New Ocean, a history of Project Mercury, said: “The first seven American astronauts were an admirable group of individuals chosen to sit at the apex of a pyramid of human effort.[T]hey became a team of personalities as well as a crew of pilots.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/SPACEFLIGHT/Mercury/SP17.htm (1712 words)

	Redstone_rocket
		The Redstone was capable of flights up to 200 miles (300 km).
		Redstone MRBM and Jupiter IRBM propellant tanks were clustered together along with eight Jupiter IRBM engines to form the first stage of the Saturn I and Saturn IB rockets.
		Redstone could be armed with a 1 Mt or 3.75 Mt of TNT (4 PJ or 16 PJ) thermonuclear warhead.
	www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=Redstone_rocket (847 words)

	REDSTONE
		31 July 58 A REDSTONE missile was fired to an altitude in excess of 200,000 feet and a nuclear device of a megaton was detonated.
		10 June 60 The REDSTONE missile was launched over the largest trajectory ever attempted over land (120 miles).
		On 31 January 1958, the REDSTONE was used as the first stage in the launch vehicle used by the Army to orbit the EXPLORER I, the Free World's first scientific earth satellite.
	www.redstone.army.mil /history/systems/redstone/welcome.html (1172 words)

	This New Ocean - Ch10-3
		One of the procedural safeguards developed in the effort to man- rate the Redstone was the "split-count," with a built-in hold in the countdown checklist.
		As the launch vehicle rose, a transistorized television camera mounted externally near the top of the Redstone scanned the surface of the capsule and adapter ring to provide engineers with bird's-eye data on the flight behavior of the spacecraft when it blasted away from the launch vehicle.
		Mercury capsule mockups were installed in each of the compounds.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-4201/ch10-3.htm (5264 words)

	SPACE MEDICINE IN PROJECT MERCURY - Chapter 8
		Prior to flight, he had been subjected to Redstone launch profiles on the centrifuge at the U.S. Air Force Medical Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio.[5] The spacecraft reached an altitude of 155 statute miles, landed 420 statute miles down-range, and was recovered.
		The Wiesner report was also critical of the Atlas launch vehicle which was to orbit the Mercury astronaut in space, stating that it was "marginal." Indeed, it was concluded that because the U.S.S.R. possessed larger launch vehicles, the United States would not be the first to orbit a man in space.
		The assessment of the Mercury biomedical program which was to take place in March 1961 would be formalized in a report of the President in April.
	lsda.jsc.nasa.gov /books/mercury/ch08.htm (4262 words)

	Mercury Program
		Mercury Redstone 2 was the third attempted flight of the Mercury/Redstone launch configuration and the first to include a living organism, a 17 kg chimpanzee named Ham (in honor of Holloman Aerospace Medical Center).
		Mercury Redstone 3 was the first flight of an American rocket with a human on board, occurring twenty-three days after Yuri Gagarin's orbital flight of Vostok 1.
		Mercury Redstone 4 was the second flight of an American rocket with a human on board and the last suborbital manned flight.
	burro.astr.cwru.edu /stu/advanced/20th_close_mercury.html (4262 words)

	Redstone
		Redstone Township, Pennsylvania Redstone Township is a township located in 2000 census, the township had a total populat...
		Redstone Arsenal, Alabama Redstone Arsenal is a US ARMY base/town located next to the city of Madison County, Alabama.
		Redstone Redstone has several meanings: Rocket Alabama Pennsylvania Redstone - a Squadron Supreme superhero This is a di...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/redstone.html (4262 words)

	Redstone
		Besides the Jupiter-C and Mercury Redstone, descendents of the original Redstone are the Juno I and the Redstone Sparta.
		The Redstone was a single stage, liquid fueled (alcohol and liquid oxygen) surface-to-surface missile with a range of 175 to 200 miles.
		The Redstone was 69 feet 4 inches (21.13 m) in length and could be armed with either a 1 megaton or 3.75 megaton thermonuclear warhead.
	www.worldspaceflight.com /addendum/us_rockets/redstone.htm (4262 words)

	Project Mercury History
		The Mercury spacecraft was a cone-shaped capsule that held one astronaut and had a cylinder mounted to the top.
		The Mercury flight plan during the first orbit was to maintain optimum spacecraft attitude for radar tracking and communication checks.
		The Mercury program saw dynamic activity with the program lasting for over four and a half years, which brought together more then two million government employees to undertake this gigantic program.
	students.db.erau.edu /~kalier/project_Mercury.html (4262 words)

	Mercury Project
		NASA had considered one more Mercury flight, but the Project officially ended on June 12, 1963, when NASA Administrator James Webb told the Senate Space Committee that no further Mercury missions were needed, and that NASA would press ahead with the Gemini and Apollo programs.
		A bell-shaped capsule, 2.9 m tall, 1.88 m in diameter, built by McDonnell Aircraft Corp., for launch by either a Redstone or an Atlas booster.
		A few months later, Alan Shepard became the second primate to fly a Mercury-Redstone to the edge of space.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/M/Mercury_Project.html (4262 words)

	Project Mercury - A Chronology. Part 2 (B)
		Mercury spacecraft No. 5 was delivered to the Marshall Space Flight Center for booster compatibility checks, and was shipped to Cape Canaveral on October 11, 1960, for the Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) ballistic-primate (Ham) mission.
		Mercury spacecraft No. 6 was delivered to Cape Canaveral for the Mercury-Atlas 2 (MA-2) unmanned mission intended to gain data on maximum dynamic pressure and maximum heat on the spacecraft afterbody.
		Mercury Control Center Countdown Flight Control and Overall Operations, MR-3, Apr. 20, 1961.
	history.nasa.gov /SP-4001/p2b.htm (4262 words)

	REDSTONE
		31 July 58 A REDSTONE missile was fired to an altitude in excess of 200,000 feet and a nuclear device of a megaton was detonated.
		10 June 60 The REDSTONE missile was launched over the largest trajectory ever attempted over land (120 miles).
		On 31 January 1958, the REDSTONE was used as the first stage in the launch vehicle used by the Army to orbit the EXPLORER I, the Free World's first scientific earth satellite.
	www.redstone.army.mil /history/systems/redstone/welcome.html (1172 words)

	Project Mercury - A Chronology. Part 2 (B)
		Mercury spacecraft No. 5 was delivered to the Marshall Space Flight Center for booster compatibility checks, and was shipped to Cape Canaveral on October 11, 1960, for the Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) ballistic-primate (Ham) mission.
		Mercury spacecraft No. 6 was delivered to Cape Canaveral for the Mercury-Atlas 2 (MA-2) unmanned mission intended to gain data on maximum dynamic pressure and maximum heat on the spacecraft afterbody.
		Mercury remote-site flight controllers were appointed, and training was inaugurated by a series of Space Task Group lectures that covered facilities, network systems, operations, and other details.
	history.nasa.gov /SP-4001/p2b.htm (12529 words)

	Redstone
		Besides the Jupiter-C and Mercury Redstone, descendents of the original Redstone are the Juno I and the Redstone Sparta.
		The Redstone was a single stage, liquid fueled (alcohol and liquid oxygen) surface-to-surface missile with a range of 175 to 200 miles.
		The Redstone was 69 feet 4 inches (21.13 m) in length and could be armed with either a 1 megaton or 3.75 megaton thermonuclear warhead.
	www.worldspaceflight.com /addendum/us_rockets/redstone.htm (268 words)

	Project Mercury History
		The Mercury spacecraft was a cone-shaped capsule that held one astronaut and had a cylinder mounted to the top.
		The Mercury flight plan during the first orbit was to maintain optimum spacecraft attitude for radar tracking and communication checks.
		The Mercury program saw dynamic activity with the program lasting for over four and a half years, which brought together more then two million government employees to undertake this gigantic program.
	students.db.erau.edu /~kalier/project_Mercury.html (1503 words)

	Mercury-Jupiter - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Mercury-Jupiter
		It would have been capable of launching the Mercury spacecraft to a 300 mile (500 km) apogee at 10,000 mph (14,000 km/h) and 1,500 miles (2,500 km) downrange.
		for Project Mercury in October, 1958; however, it was never flown, and was cancelled in July 1959 due to budget constraints.
		However, when this trajectory was used on earlier biological test flights, the animals received 40 g during reentry, so perhaps the Jupiter would not have been used to its full capability on manned flights.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Mercury-Jupiter.html (133 words)

	Animal Astronauts-Ham
		Launch of Mercury-Redstone 2 on Jan. 21, 1961.
		Ham was carried into space aboard MERCURY-REDSTONE 2.
		Ham being fed an apple after the Mercury-Redstone 2 test flight.
	ham.spa.umn.edu /kris/ham.html (109 words)

	Ham
		Ham's mission, known as Mercury-Redstone 2 was launched from Pad 5/6 at Cape Canaveral.
		Because of over-acceleration of the launch vehicle plus the added energy of the escape rocket, a speed of 9,426 km/hr was reached instead of the 7,081 km/hr planned, resulting in an apogee of 253 km rather than the intended 185 km.
		A 44-month-old male chimpanzee launched on board Mercury Capsule No. 5 at 11:55 am on Jan. 31, 1961, for a suborbital flight.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/H/Ham.html (336 words)

	ch4
		The original Redstone could not meet the mission requirements; however, the Jupiter C had elongated propellant tanks, a lighter structure, and the required performance for Mercury.
		Prior to shipment to the launch site at Cap Canaveral, the Mercury- Redstone abort system was checked by introducing simulated malfunctions and evaluating the abort system response.
		Three qualification flights were conducted for the Mercury Redstone flight series.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-45/ch4.htm (336 words)

	This New Ocean - Ch10-7
		Of a total of 71 Redstone booster flights (including 4 Mercury-Redstone) through March 24, 1961, only 10, or 14.1 percent, were classed as failures by the latest revision of a composite document prepared under W. Mrazek, Director, Structures and Mechanics Division: "Redstone Vehicle Malfunction Study (Mercury-Redstone Program)", MSFC report No. DSD-TM-12-60, Rev.
		The foremost cause of previous Redstone booster overaccelerations was a small servo control valve that had failed to regulate properly the flow of hydrogen peroxide to the steam generator, which in turn powered, and in the case of MR-1A and MR-2 overpowered, the fuel pumps.
		MR-BD might have been that first flight had it been "MR-3," as originally scheduled, but the decision of a month before froze the Mercury-Redstone schedule for at least two months afterward.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-4201/ch10-7.htm (336 words)

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