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Payload / Mission

Mercury-Redstone BD

Type
Test Flight
Orbit
Suborbital (Sub)

Mercury-Redstone BD was an uncrewed 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.