[ad_1]
Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space aboard the Chrysler designed and built Freedom 7 [Full flight w/ animation]
[ad_2]
View Reddit by BostonDodgeGuy – View Source
[ad_1]
Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space aboard the Chrysler designed and built Freedom 7 [Full flight w/ animation]
[ad_2]
View Reddit by BostonDodgeGuy – View Source
First launched in 1953, the PGM-11 Redstone was a short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile in active service with the U.S. Army from June 1958 to June 1964; and was used for the first U.S. live nuclear missile tests. It was built by Chrysler for the United States Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) and was deployed in West Germany.
The Mercury-Redstone rocket used the stretched Redstone configuration from the Jupiter-C sounding rocket for six suborbital launches for Project Mercury in 1960 and 1961.