Mercury-Redstone 1A
Space flight
Mercury-Redstone 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... Wikipedia
Date: December 19, 1960
Launch mass: 1,230 kilograms (2,720 lb)
Mission duration: 15 minutes, 45 seconds
Recovered by: USS Valley Forge
Rocket: Redstone MRLV MR-3
Spacecraft: Mercury No.2