Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission
Type: Human Exploration
Orbit: Suborbital
Pad: Launch Complex 5, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
Mercury-Redstone 4 was the second United States human spaceflight, on July 21, 1961. The suborbital Project Mercury flight was launched with a Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, MRLV-8. The spacecraft, Mercury capsule #11, was nicknamed the Liberty Bell 7, and it was piloted by the astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom.
