Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission

Mission patch Mercury-Redstone 4 Patch

Launch Status

Success

Date & Time

21 Jul 1961, 12:20pm

Location

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Launch Site

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Pad

Launch Complex 5

Launch Service Provider

NASA logo

NASA

Vehicle

Redstone MRLV image

Redstone MRLV

Spacecraft Stage

Mercury

Crew

US flag

Gus Grissom

Mission

Mercury-Redstone 4

Mission Type

Human Exploration

Destination

Suborbital

Mercury-Redstone 4 was the second United States human spaceflight, on July 21, 1961. The suborbital Project Mercury flight was launched with a Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, MRLV-8. The spacecraft, Mercury capsule #11, was nicknamed the Liberty Bell 7, and it was piloted by the astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom.

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Launch of Mercury-Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7)

Updated: Jan 3, 7:53pm UTC

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