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Due to so many tests, Project Mercury successfully achieved its goals. This article shows a crucial role of unmanned test flights on achieving success.
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WIKIPEDIA INFO: Big Joe 1, ATLAS 10D rocket. Launched an unmanned boilerplate Mercury capsule from Cape Canaveral, Florida on September 9, 1959. The objective of the Big Joe program was to test the Mercury spacecraft ablating heat shield. It was also the first Project Mercury flight using an Atlas booster. The flight was both a success and failure—the heat shield survived reentry and was in remarkably good condition when retrieved from the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlas-D booster, however, failed…
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In this Project Mercury test, a spacecraft boosted by a modified Atlas was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Mercury capsule reached a peak altitude of 107 statute miles and landed 1.425 miles down range. Atlas was designed to launch payloads into low Earth orbit, geosynchronous transfer orbit or geosynchronous orbit. NASA first launched Atlas as a space launch vehicle in 1958. Project SCORE, the first communications satellite that transmitted President Eisenhower's pre-recorded…
NASA INFO: Mission: Mercury-Redstone 2 Launch Pad: LC-5 Vehicle: Redstone (3) Crew: Ham the Chimp Milestones: Not applicable Payload: Spacecraft number 5, Launch Vehicle MR-2 Mission Objective: Primate suborbital and auto abort. Orbit: Altitude: 127 statute miles Orbits: 0 Duration: 0 Days, 0 hours, 16 minutes, 39 seconds Distance: 422 statute miles Velocity: 5,857 miles per hour Max Q: 575 psf Max G: 14.7 Launch: January 31, 1961 - Launch Complex 5/6 Kennedy Space Center, Florida Landing…
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