Mercury 4

About this film

The Mercury 4 mission. The audio files are named as per their original historical audio reel number at the NASA historical audio vault. Information listed below is the sum-total of data on these reels. INFORMATION ON THE AUDIO FILES: 371-AAI: 7/21/1961, Capsule to Ground Communications for flight with Comm Tech Double Fox 1 Grissom to Shepard 2TRK Test #1809 413-AAG: 7/21/1961 MISSION INFORMATION: MR-4 (19) Liberty Bell 7 Pad LC-5 () Redstone (6) Crew: Virgil I "Gus" Grissom Backup Crew: John H. Glenn, Jr. Milestones: 3/7/61 - Spacecraft delivered to Hanger S CCAFS Payload: Spacecraft # 11, Launch Vehicle S/N MR-8 Mission Objective: Mercury-Redstone 4 was the fourth mission in the Mercury-Redstone series of flight tests and the second U.S. manned suborbital spaceflight. It was the next step in the progressive research, development and training program leading to the study of man's capabilities in a space environment during manned orbital flight. The main objective was to corroborate the man-in-space concept. The main configuration differences between the MR-3 spacecraft was the addition of a large viewing window and an explosively actuated side hatch. The addition of the large view…

Directors & creators

NASA

Subjects

NASA; Mercury 4, Mercury Audio Collection

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