Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Mercury-Redstone BD was an unmanned booster development flight in the U.S. Mercury program. It was launched on March 24 1961 from Launch Complex 5 at Cape Canaveral Florida. The mission used a boilerplate Mercury spacecraft and Redstone MRLV-5.After the problems that developed during the MR-2 mission carrying the chimpanzee Ham it was apparent that the Redstone needed further development before it could be trusted to carry a human passenger.Dr.
