Redstone-mercury 3-freedom 7 By: Karlee Post Huntze

Date and location of launch  The date of the launch was may 5 th,1961 at 9:34 a.m.  The location of the launch was in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Video of launch  _Redstone-Mercury_technicians- work_missile_gantry

Purpose of the mission  The main purpose was a scientific objective of project mercury was to determine man’s capabilities in a space environment, and in those environments which he will be subject upon going into and returning from space.

Outcome Outcome  Although with basic flight problems the mission was successful!

Interesting info.  It was the first liquid rocket developed using German v-2 technology.  It was an important rocket in the early u.s. space program, it formed the base of Jupiter C, which was the launcher for the first u.s. satellite.  It also was used in a very important mercury- Redstone program of suborbital flights, which led directly to the first u.s. manned orbital space- flight with a mercury-Atlas rocket.  It also was the second launch of a human into space.