1960: Mercury-Redstone IA

Mercury-Redstone 1A (MR-1A) was launched on 19 December 1960 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission objectives of this unmanned suborbital flight were to qualify the spacecraft for space flight and qualify the system for an upcoming primate suborbital flight. The spacecraft tested its instrumentation, posigrade rockets, retro rockets and recovery system. The mission was completely successful.

The Mercury spacecraft was recovered from the Atlantic Ocean by recovery helicopters about 15 minutes after landing.

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