Status
Suborbital
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
Mercury-Redstone 4
Mercury-Redstone 4 was the second United States human spaceflight, on July 21, 1961. The suborbital Project Mercury flight was launched with a Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, MRLV-8. The spacecraft, Mercury capsule #11, was nicknamed the Liberty Bell 7, and it was piloted by the astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom.
Payloads: 1
Suborbital
Location
LC-5, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
Mercury-Redstone
6th mission
4th mission of 1961
5th successful mission
5th consecutive successful mission