Mercury-Redstone 2

test flight of the Redstone rocket and Mercury spacecraft

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1961-01-31T00:00:00Z

rocket launch Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 5

1961-01-31T00:00:00Z

splashdown

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Frameless

Earth from mercury - redstone 2

Ham Launch - GPN-2000-001007

Ham Launch - GPN-2000-001007 (cropped)

Mercury-redstone 2 recovery

S61-01942 (31 Jan. 1961) --- Launch of the Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) vehicle on Jan. 31, 1961. The 16-minute suborbital flight carried biomedical test subject chimpanzee (Ham) aboard. Photo credit: NASA

S61-04674 (31 Jan. 1961) --- Earth view from the Mercury Redstone 2 (MR-2) spacecraft. Photo credit: NASA

S61-04692 (31 Jan. 1961) --- Earth view from the Mercury Redstone 2 (MR-2) spacecraft. Photo credit: NASA

S63-22731 (31 Jan. 1961) --- The launch of the Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) suborbital mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Jan. 31, 1961. Onboard the spacecraft was ?Ham?, a 37-pound chimpanzee.

Type	Description	Date	Keywords	Notes	Source
link	NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive entry@				Wikidata
link	Freebase entry@				Wikidata
major	rocket launch Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 5	1961			Wikidata
minor	splashdown	1961			Wikidata
image	Earth from mercury - redstone 2	1961			Wikimedia
image	Ham Launch - GPN-2000-001007	1961			Wikimedia
image	Ham Launch - GPN-2000-001007 (cropped)	1961			Wikimedia
image	Mercury-redstone 2 recovery				Wikimedia
image	S61-01942 (31 Jan. 1961) --- Launch of the Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) vehicle on Jan. 31, 1961. The 16-minute suborbital flight carried biomedical test subject chimpanzee (Ham) aboard. Photo credit: NASA	1961			Wikimedia
image	S61-04674 (31 Jan. 1961) --- Earth view from the Mercury Redstone 2 (MR-2) spacecraft. Photo credit: NASA	1961			Wikimedia
image	S61-04692 (31 Jan. 1961) --- Earth view from the Mercury Redstone 2 (MR-2) spacecraft. Photo credit: NASA	1961			Wikimedia
image	S63-22731 (31 Jan. 1961) --- The launch of the Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) suborbital mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Jan. 31, 1961. Onboard the spacecraft was ?Ham?, a 37-pound chimpanzee.	1961			Wikimedia