Launch Vehicles
Redstone
United States
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An American liquid-fueled launch vehicle adapted from the U.S. Army's Redstone ballistic missile, developed under Wernher von Braun's team. Its Mercury-Redstone variant carried Alan Shepard on Freedom 7 in May 1961, the first American spaceflight, a suborbital hop that opened the crewed side of the U.S. space program.
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Vehicle ClassSingle-stage expendable suborbital launch vehicle 1 Manufacturer First Flight DateDate of the first crewed Mercury-Redstone flight, Freedom 7; the Redstone missile itself first flew as a ballistic missile in 1953. StatusRetired; flew six Mercury-program missions, two crewed, before Project Mercury moved to the larger Atlas launch vehicle for orbital flights. 2 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Encyclopedia Astronautica
http://astronautix.com/r/redstone.htmlQuote, http://astronautix.com/r/redstone.html
Redstone was the first large liquid rocket developed in the US using German V-2 technology.
2. NASA History Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administrationhttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/marshall/mercury-redstone-launch-vehicle/Quote, https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/marshall/mercury-redstone-launch-vehicle/
The Redstone was designed as surface-to-surface ballistic missile with an original range of 500 miles that was later reduced to 200 miles.
2. NASA History Office
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