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Earthrise and moon view from the Apollo 8 mission - 1968.
#nasa#apollo mission#spacecraft#space exploration#astronauts#project apollo#mercury redstone#space photographs
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"All right, Pericles, our mission is clear: only we can pass through the time rift, stop the atomic detonation of Earth, and in doing so, avert the rise of The Planet of The Apes!": A chimpanzee, trained for the Mercury-Redstone 2 space mission, and his keeper, New Mexico, 1961.
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Mercury spacecraft with measurements and cutaway view.
Date: October 1963
NASA ID: S63-18867
#Mercury-Redstone#Mercury-Atlas#Mercury Program#NASA#Project Mercury#cutaway#infographic#October#1963#spacecraft#my post
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Today I Learned that Mercury-Redstone 1, the first (uncrewed) flight of the Mercury Program, failed because they used the wrong power cable to the rocket. The engines fired briefly, the explosive bolts connecting the rocket to the pad blew, and the rocket lifted about 4 inches off the ground before immediately stopping. The Launch Escape System (The rocket on the tower above the capsule) also fired, but decoupled itself from the capsule and thus did nothing to remove it. About 4 seconds after that, the parachutes popped themselves out of the capsule.
And here's the video. Absolute comedy gold.
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Not to burst OP's bubble or anything but
Satellite and sputnik mean the same thing (and have since prior to the launch of sputnik 1) and both contain the figurative language associations. It's the difference between naming your satellite "satellite" and naming it "cool guy", not the difference between naming your satellite "lil buddy" and naming it "cool guy".
#both naming your satellite “satellite” and naming it “mercury redstone” are silly#the space race was in fact silly.
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Mercury Freedom 7
This is it! Alan Shepard's capsule from Project Mercury. NASA's history of manned spaceflight begins with this beautiful aluminum cone, launched atop Mercury-Redstone 3 on May 15, 1961 in a short, 15 minute ballistic flight to an altitude of 187.5 km.
Udvar-Hazy Center - Chantilly, VA
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Wild photo of a Falcon Heavy launch, complete with dual booster return and landing, arcing over the first NASA astronaut rocket, the Mercury Redstone, stately standing in the foreground.
photo by Matt Haskell
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The Flight of Freedom 7
Launched from Cape Canaveral 62 years ago today Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. became the first American in Space, during a fifteen minute suborbital flight aboard the Mercury Redstone 4 capsule Freedom 7. After a successful mission Shepard's capsule splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean and was recovered aboard a waiting Aircraft Carrier the USS Lake Champlain; Taking America's earliest steps in the Space Race which would eventually led to American Astronauts walking on the moon eight years later.
#1961#Astronaut#Freedom 7#Project Mercury#NASA#Mercury Seven#Alan B. Shepard#Redstone Rocket#Cape Canaveral#Space Race#Cold War#Historical Art#Chalkboard#Chalk Art#Chalk#Chalk Drawing
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Hopefully he doesn’t eat the thermometer 😬🎗
a bit late for that m8 lmao
#A Moment With The Crow Father [Asks]#🎗 anon#uh... at least it was a redstone one and not a mercury one
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God so @literallymechanical told me about this the other day and I'm still laughing about it. So, Gus Grissom was a one of the original seven Project Mercury astronauts, and was actually the second American to go to space, and the second American to go to space twice. He was also a short king but we'll get to that in a bit. Here he is with the Mercury-Redstone 4 capsule, nicknamed the Liberty Bell 7!
Mercury-Redstone 4 was the second US manned spaceflight, and there were some complications after its splashdown in the Atlantic ocean when the emergency explosive bolts unexpectedly fired, opening the hatch and flooding the thing. Our boy Gus had to tread water in his spacesuit while he waited for rescue, nearly drowning the entire time. The Liberty Bell 7 couldn't be retrieved, and is currently at the bottom of the ocean.
When Gus was selected as the pilot for the first manned Gemini flight, he became heavily involved in the design of the spacecraft cockpit. He also happened to be the shortest of the original astronauts at 5'7" tall. Literally, after he was done with it, 14 out of the 16 existing astronauts could not fit inside. They had to completely change the cockpit design for future missions.
NASA didn't learn its lesson about Gus and decisions, so they let Gus give his Gemini capsule a nickname, and it went about as well as you'd expect. This is the excerpt from his Wikipedia article (image description in alt text):
Fucking hilarious. There's a specific brand of humor you see in the early US space program that I just adore. It’s a phenomenal mix of like, 60's dry military humor (all these guys were airforce pilots), and the sheer incredulity of doing something as insane as going to space. Sometimes, you just gotta laugh and name your dinky little space car after the Titanic, because the first one fucking SANK IN THE OCEAN.
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1961 launch of the Mercury-Redstone 3.
#nasa#mercury mission#spacecraft#space exploration#mercury astronaut#project mercury#redstone rocket#mercury redstone
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For my own memory, in the hopes that Scar will put yesterday´s stream on his VODs channel because it was amazing and featured among other things:
Scar calling Etho “the Maple Prince”
Xisuma trolling Scar by mixing up Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Star Trek, and Harry Potter
Mumbo showing Scar the llama death chamber, and Scar praising him for being weird
Scar and Mumbo having a conversation about social media and AI
Scar telling Etho not to worry and that he´s thinking about moving the mail box himself (after all he had two best-selling redstone shops so surely he´s qualified!); Etho: well now I´m worried… But right afterwards Etho says people forget that Scar is actually quite skilled at the game
Etho is just interrupting people today and Scar suggests just collecting people to procrastinate
I approve of Scar encouraging Etho to participate in MCC again
Etho asking how Scar got stamps already, Scar saying he´s been a part of a lot of Life series, Etho: “you and your wily words, you can get anything you want…”
Big Salmon decreed mercury = good
Cleo shows up! “lag busting” is the new “it lagged into my inventory”
Scar definitely not encouraging Cleo to kill all other villagers after setting up her own trading hall. Cleo wants organic free range villagers.
Cleo trying to sell the monstrosolith as a giant billboard
Cleo proved she can do valley girl voice, Scar and Etho are shocked. Then they´re discussing what "no cap" means. (Etho on stream: “big true, no cap.”) They talked about poggers, and Scar going wild with his pants off (after Cleo exploded them), and Etho didn´t know what Stitch is.
Scar starts talking about Disney and it takes him a minute to realize Cleo and Etho have run away
More maple syrup discussion (Etho telling Cleo if she likes the brand she gets it´s fine), and a frantic ride-by and log-out by Grian
Cleo and Scar want to start a cult. Etho wants to be a frat instead, something cooler. Frats have fewer rules, they´re more like “pants off, it´s fine.” Scar says he´d ask too many questions to be in a cult, Etho points out he could be cult leader. Cleo immediately offers to be his second, the person who does all the dirty work.
Shoe talk. Scar shows off his twelve-year-old shoes on stream.
Making fun of Etho´s set-up! Scar is horrified. Etho talks about his Kleenex box where his mike stands. It matches his desk! It has his settings written on it! Also his space bar broke during DO2 but he got used to it. Scar decides they need reinforcements and calls Bdubs over. Ren also shows up.
Etho mentions he didn´t get a Decked Out 2 desk mat (took to long to think about it) and Tango logs in to write in chat that he´s disappointed and logs out again
A wild Iskall approaches in the distance. Etho: trident brother!
Etho invented the minecart shuffle
Cleo: "I always want you to kill people, Scar. ...no not Etho."
And Etho leaves to shuffle snow like the Canadian cryptid he is
(how dare Ren interrupt Bdubs before he can give his current opinion on the kleenex box)
"Etho´s not one to lie" (are you sure about that? ^^)
...I look away for two seconds and did Mumbo just call himself a panda in chat. I was later told: a panda fiat! Which is a car, and Iskall is a Ferrari
Moonlanding with Gem! And some talk about bases and criticism. Gem: "I love making Etho mad," “Let Etho be mad,” What´s he gonna do, all he´s gonna do is go oh snappers ^^ "Scar, you are my Etho"
#hermitcraft#hc s10#hermitcraft streams#gtwscar#...how did this get so long#well it was a four and a half hours stream
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Mercury-Redstone 3 (Mercury Spacecraft No. 7/MR-7) Freedom 7 on Launch Complex 5, during prelaunch activities.
Date: April 21, 1961
NASA ID: link, GPN-2000-001006
#Mercury-Redstone 3#MR-3#Freedom 7#Mercury Spacecraft No. 7#Mercury#Mercury Program#Project Mercury#NASA#Mercury-Redstone#Redstone#Redstone MRLV#MR-7#Rocket#LC-5#Cape Canaveral#Kennedy Space Center#Florida#April#1961#my post
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Mercury Astronauts and a Redstone - January 7th, 1996.
"Space suited project Mercury astronauts John H. Glenn, Virgil I. Grissom, and Alan B. Shepard Jr. (left to right) are pictured here posing in front of a Redstone rocket in this 1961 NASA publicity photo. Project Mercury was the first U.S. program designed to put humans in space. It resulted in 6 manned flights using one-man capsules, and Redstone and Atlas rockets. Shortly after the first U.S. manned flight on May 5th, 1961, a suborbital flight piloted by Alan Shepard, President Kennedy announced the goal of a manned lunar landing by 1970. This goal was achieved by NASA's Apollo program and Shepard himself walked on the Moon as a member of the Apollo 14 mission."
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2023 August 3
The Falcon and the Redstone
Image Credit & Copyright: Matt Haskell
Explanation: In a photo from the early hours of July 29 (UTC), a Redstone rocket and Mercury capsule are on display at Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 5. Beyond the Redstone, the 8 minute long exposure has captured the arcing launch streak of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The Falcon's heavy communications satellite payload, at a record setting 9 metric tons, is bound for geosynchronous orbit some 22,000 miles above planet Earth. The historic launch of a Redstone rocket carried astronaut Alan Shepard on a suborbital spaceflight in May 1961 to an altitude of about 116 miles. Near the top of the frame, this Falcon rocket's two reusable side boosters separate and execute brief entry burns. They returned to land side by side at Canaveral's Landing Zone 1 and 2 in the distance.
∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230803.html
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