Status
Suborbital
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
Mercury-Redstone 1A
Mercury-Redstone 1A (MR-1A) was launched on December 19, 1960 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission objectives of this uncrewed 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, retrorockets and recovery system. The mission was completely successful.
Payloads: 1
Suborbital
Location
LC-5, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
Mercury-Redstone
2nd mission
2nd mission of 1960
1st successful mission
1st consecutive successful mission