Mercury-Atlas 4 (MA-4) was an uncrewed test flight within NASA's Project Mercury program, launched on September 13, 1961, at 14:04:16 UTC from Cape Canaveral...
12 KB (1,159 words) - 09:12, 14 November 2023
Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) was the first crewed American orbital spaceflight, which took place on February 20, 1962. Piloted by astronaut John Glenn and operated...
42 KB (4,953 words) - 01:55, 15 August 2024
Mercury-Atlas 5 was an American spaceflight of the Mercury program. It was launched on November 29, 1961, with Enos, a chimpanzee, aboard. The craft orbited...
16 KB (1,969 words) - 14:52, 28 April 2024
Mercury-Atlas was a subprogram of Project Mercury: 1 that included most of the flights and tests using the Atlas LV-3B launch vehicle. The Atlas was...
3 KB (250 words) - 03:59, 2 November 2023
Mercury-Atlas 3 (MA-3) was an unmanned spaceflight of the Mercury program. It was launched unmanned on April 25, 1961 at 16:15 UTC, from Launch Complex...
7 KB (845 words) - 11:35, 15 May 2024
Mercury-Atlas 7, launched May 24, 1962, was the fourth crewed flight of Project Mercury. The spacecraft, named Aurora 7, was piloted by astronaut Scott...
28 KB (2,873 words) - 00:02, 22 January 2024
Mercury-Atlas 1 (MA-1) was the first attempt to launch a Mercury capsule and occurred on July 29, 1960 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft was unmanned...
8 KB (979 words) - 00:14, 19 July 2024
Mercury-Atlas 2 (MA-2) was an uncrewed test flight of the Mercury program using the Atlas rocket. It launched on February 21, 1961, at 14:10 UTC, from...
4 KB (422 words) - 17:01, 6 January 2024
with Miss Sam, 1960 Mercury-Redstone 1: launch escape system lift-off after 4'' launch, 1960 Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham, 1961 Mercury-Atlas 5: Enos, 1961 Nine...
112 KB (11,882 words) - 16:30, 17 August 2024
Mercury-Atlas 10 (MA-10) was a cancelled early crewed space mission, which would have been the last flight in NASA's Mercury program. It was planned as...
9 KB (1,127 words) - 01:23, 23 September 2023