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Mercury MR-4
Crew
Grissom
21 July 1961
12:20 GMT.
Duration
: 0.01 days.
Call Sign
: Liberty Bell 7.
Backup Crew:
Glenn
.
Nation
: USA.
Agency
: NASA.
Launch Site
:
Cape Canaveral
.
Launch Complex
: LC05.
Launch Vehicle
:
Redstone Mercury
.
LV Configuration
: Redstone RS/CC/MR-8. Program:
Mercury
. Class:
Manned
.
Type
: Spacecraft.
Spacecraft
:
Mercury
.
Payload
: Mercury (Liberty Bell 7).
Mass
: 1,286 kg.
Location of Spacecraft
: In the Atlantic Ocean (5 km deep, 832 km NW of Grand Turk island, 1961-1999; Kansas Cosmosphere thereafter. References:
5
,
26
,
33
,
59
,
60
.
Mercury 4
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