On March 24, 1961, NASA's Mercury Redstone rocket launched on its last uncrewed flight before it started sending astronauts into space. Discover more space history 👉 https://trib.al/wpjWdAN The mission was known as the Mercury Redstone Booster Development flight, and it wasn't originally planned as part of the Mercury Program. The previous Mercury Redstone flight carried a chimpanzee named Ham into space. Ham made it back alive, but the rocket had several issues during the flight. So, NASA made

#OTD On this day (November 21) in 1960, Mercury-Redstone 1 took a four-inch flight - the Redstone rocket's engines fired enough to lift it about four inches before the engines cut out. The vehicle came back to a vertical resting position on the launch pad. The engine failure automatically activated the escape tower system, but it left the uncrewed capsule behind. Read more about what initially seemed like a huge blow to the Mercury program here, in this excerpt from the NASA History publication

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🇺🇸🚀 U.S. to Conduct Routine Minuteman III ICBM Test Launch The United States will conduct a scheduled test launch of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This is a long-planned, routine test to verify the reliability and readiness of the U.S. nuclear deterrent — not a response to current global events. Such tests have been conducted regularly for decades and are consistent with international obligations. #USMilitary #MinutemanIII #