Mercury-Redstone 2
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test flight of the Redstone rocket and Mercury spacecraft
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- flight testing
- Part of
- Project Mercury
- Country
- United States
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- Mercury-Atlas 2
- Follows
- Mercury-Redstone 1A
- Duration
- 999
- Manufacturer
- McDonnell Aircraft Corporation
- Image
- Chimpanzee Ham in Biopack Couch - cropped.jpg
- Significant event
- splashdown
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- Commons category
- Mercury-Redstone 2
- space launch vehicle
- Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1961-01-31
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1961-01-31
- crew members
- Ham
- apoapsis
- 253
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 5
- location of landing
- Atlantic Ocean
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