Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
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 29 1960 from Cape Canaveral Florida. The Mercury spacecraft was unmanned and carried no launch escape system. The mission was to conduct a suborbital test flight and reentry of the spacecraft. The capsule had live posigrade separation rockets but dummy retro rockets.
