It was launched at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on May 5, 1961 (9:34 EST). The Freedom 7 capsule was used by Alan Shepard on the first US manned space mission, a 15-minute suborbital flight called Mercury Redstone 3. The rocket used variants of the Redstone and Jupiter-C ICBM boosters (for later Mercury missions, the Atlas missile was used).
Alan Shepard flew in the Freedom 7 spacecraft launched by a Redstone rocket
No Mercury 1 was not the first NASA mission, though the the Mercury project was NASA's first project, the first mission in the Mercury project and therefore the first NASA mission was Mercury-Big Joe launched on September 9, 1959.
Freedom 7, on May 5, 1961.
The first US manned spacecraft was named Mercury.
It was launched at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on May 5, 1961 (9:34 EST). The Freedom 7 capsule was used by Alan Shepard on the first US manned space mission, a 15-minute suborbital flight called Mercury Redstone 3. The rocket used variants of the Redstone and Jupiter-C ICBM boosters (for later Mercury missions, the Atlas missile was used).
there were about 7 missions to mercury
Alan Shepard flew in the Freedom 7 spacecraft launched by a Redstone rocket
Mercury-Redstone 3, also known as Freedom 7, was launched by NASA on May 5, 1961. The mission lasted just 15 minutes 22 seconds, and Alan Shepard was the only person on the flight.
On 5 May, 1961 Alan Shepherd was launched on a sub-orbital flight into space aboard Freedom 7, the first manned mission of Project Mercury.
No Mercury 1 was not the first NASA mission, though the the Mercury project was NASA's first project, the first mission in the Mercury project and therefore the first NASA mission was Mercury-Big Joe launched on September 9, 1959.
Alan B. Shepard, Jr. became the first American astronaut to fly in space on May 5, 1961, in a Mercury capsule named Freedom 7. Virgil I. Grissom, was the second American to fly in space on July 21, 1961 in a Mercury capsule named Liberty Bell 7. Both capsules were launched on Redstone rockets.
Freedom 7, on May 5, 1961.
Alan B. Shepard, Jr. became the first American astronaut to fly in space on May 5, 1961, in a Mercury capsule named Freedom 7 which was launched from a Redstone rocket.
Project Mercury's first manned mission, MR-3 (callsign Freedom 7), launched using a Mercury-Redstone rocket and carrying Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, was flown on May 5, 1961. The entire suborbital flight lasted just 16 minutes, and achieved an altitude of just over 116 miles.
The Mercury missions lasted from 1958 to 1963. Mercury-Atlas 7 was a Mercury program space mission. It launched on May 24, 1962. The Mercury 7 were the initial astronauts chosen for the Mercury missions. Scott Carpenter (who was the astronaut on Mercury-Atlas 7), L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., John H. Glenn, Jr., Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Alan B. Shepard, Jr., and Donald K. "Deke" Slayton.
The first US manned spacecraft was named Mercury.