Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
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 on January 31 1961 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral Florida. Mercury spacecraft No. 5 carried Ham the Chimp a chimpanzee on a suborbital flight landing in the Atlantic Ocean 16 minutes and 39 seconds after launch.
