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Mercury-Atlas 2

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Launch Details

Date: 21 Feb 1961, 02:10 pm UTC

Rocket: Atlas LV-3B (Atlas)

Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Mission

Type: Test Flight

Orbit: Suborbital

Pad: Space Launch Complex 14, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

Mercury-Atlas 2 (MA-2) was an unmanned test flight of the Mercury program using the Atlas rocket. It launched on February 21, 1961 at 14:10 UTC, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.