Mercury-Redstone model

Mercury-Redstone model


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Sitting on one of the pads at LC-5/6 is a full-scale model of the Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle used to launch Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom on their sub-orbital flights. Later Project Mercury launches used the Mercury-Atlas launch vehicle—see next photo.


Copyright 2011, Garrett Wollman. All rights reserved. Photograph taken 2011-02-26.