Mercury USAF Photo 610324 PL-61-71552.jpg

J3mia03 wrote:

[image]

J3, this one has me more baffled than usual. That's obviously
a boilerplate version of the Mercury capsule atop the Redstone.
That's "MR 5" painted on the booster, but as far as I know
there was never a Mercury-Redtsone 5 flight (an MR-5 flight
was planned for late 1961, with Glenn as the pilot, but it
was scrubbed in the wake of Titov's Vostok 2 flight). Any
idea where this is and what's going on?

--Bill Thompson

Seem MR-5 was the cancelled mission. check
http://www.astronautix.com/flights/merrymr5.htm for the details


On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:39:09 GMT, "William R Thompson"
wrote:

J3mia03 wrote:

[image]

J3, this one has me more baffled than usual. That's obviously
a boilerplate version of the Mercury capsule atop the Redstone.
That's "MR 5" painted on the booster, but as far as I know
there was never a Mercury-Redtsone 5 flight (an MR-5 flight
was planned for late 1961, with Glenn as the pilot, but it
was scrubbed in the wake of Titov's Vostok 2 flight). Any
idea where this is and what's going on?

--Bill Thompson

wrote:

http://www.astronautix.com/flights/merrymr5.htm for the details

Thanks. Apparently the rocket in this picture was the Mercury Redstone
Booster Development flight. I'd always assumed that this flight
was made without a Mercury capsule, since the objective was to
check out improvements in the Redstone.

Thanks for posting all the great space pictures.

--Bill Thompson