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Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) was the penultimate test flight of the Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle prior to the first manned American space mission in Project Mercury. It was launched at 16:55 UTC […]

Mercury-Redstone 1A (MR-1A) was launched on December 19 1960 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral Florida. The mission objectives of this unmanned suborbital flight were to qualify the spacecraft for space […]

Mercury-Redstone 1 (MR-1) was the first Mercury-Redstone unmanned flight test in the Mercury program and the first attempt to launch a Mercury spacecraft with the Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle. Intended to […]

Mercury-Atlas 1 (MA-1) was the first launch attempt of a Mercury capsule (not including the boilerplate spacecraft of the September 1959 Big Joe flight) launched at 13:13 UTC on July […]

Mercury-Atlas 3 (MA-3) was launched unmanned on April 25 1961 at 16:15 UTC from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral Florida. The Mercury capsule contained a robotic mechanical astronaut. Mercury […]

Big Joe 1 (Atlas 10-D) launched an unmanned boilerplate Mercury capsule from Cape Canaveral Florida on September 9 1959. The objective of the Big Joe program was to test the […]

Mercury-Atlas 10 (MA-10) was a cancelled early manned space mission which would have been the last flight in NASA’s Mercury program. It was planned as a three-day extended mission to […]

The Pioneer Venus Multiprobe also known as Pioneer Venus 2 or Pioneer 13 was a spacecraft launched in 1978 to explore Venus as part of NASA’s Pioneer program.

Skylab 4 (also SL-4 and SLM-3) was the third manned Skylab mission and placed the third and final crew aboard the first American space station.The mission started on November 16 […]

The Skylab Rescue Mission (also SL-R) was a backup rescue flight as part of a contingency plan for the Skylab space station. It used a modified Command Module that could […]