Status
Suborbital
Failure
Rocket
Mission Details
Mercury-Redstone 1
Mercury-Redstone 1 (MR-1) was the first Mercury-Redstone unmanned flight test in Project Mercury and the first attempt to launch a Mercury spacecraft with the Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle. Intended to be an unmanned sub-orbital spaceflight, it was launched on November 21, 1960 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The launch failed in a peculiar fashion which has been referred to as the "four-inch flight".
Payloads: 1
Suborbital
Location
LC-5, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
Mercury-Redstone
1st mission
1st mission of 1960
1st failed mission