launched fromUSA

Mercury-Redstone 1

Name: Mercury-Redstone 1
Start: 1960-11-21T14:00:00Z
Location: Canaveral

Failure

NOV 21196014:00:00 UTC

The first Mercury-Redstone unmanned flight test in Project Mercury. The launch was aborted at liftoff due to electrical fault.

LIFTOFF

NOV 21 1960

14:00:00 UTC

Failure

launched fromLC-5Canaveral

aboardMercury-RedstoneMR-1intoSuborbital

carrying1,230 kgof payload

Payload