Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission
Type: Test Flight
Orbit: Suborbital
Pad: Launch Complex 5, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
Mercury-Redstone BD was an uncrewed booster development flight in the U.S. Mercury program. It was launched on March 24, 1961 from Launch Complex 5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission used a boilerplate Mercury spacecraft and Redstone MRLV-5.
