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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone BD
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Mission brief
The flight at a glance.
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.
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