Mercury 5 Redstone
Mercury 5 Redstone
Launch Date
January 31, 1961
Craft
Mercury
Status
Past
Crew
0
Mercury 5 Redstone
Mercury 5 Redstone
Launch Date
January 31, 1961
Craft
Mercury
Status
Past
Crew
0
Crafts
Mercury
Mercury
The Mercury capsule was the United States' first human spacecraft. Built without onboard computers, all flight calculations had to be determined on the ground and radioed up to each crew member. The spacecraft performed two suborbital and four orbital human missions and proved that people could live in space for multiple days.