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MESSENGER’s Last Day on Mercury
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MESSENGER’s Last Day on Mercury

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MESSENGER’s Last Day on Mercury

By Overlook Horizon|2025-05-01T09:09:20-04:00May 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: mercury, MESSENGER's, nasa, Photo, photo of the day, picture|

Photo of the Day The first to orbit inner planet Mercury, the MESSENGER spacecraft came to rest on this region of Mercury's surface on April 30, 2015. Constructed from MESSENGER image and laser altimeter data, the projected scene looks north over the northeastern rim of the broad, lava filled Shakespeare basin. The large, 48 [...]

Mercury Redstone 1 Rocket Launch Failure
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Mercury Redstone 1 Rocket Launch Failure

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Mercury Redstone 1 Rocket Launch Failure

By Overlook Horizon|2020-10-13T09:52:14-04:00October 13th, 2020|Categories: Space Education|Tags: everyday astronaut, launch failure, Live, mercury, mercury atlas, mercury program, mercury project, mercury redstone, mercury redstone 1, mercury redstone 3, mercury redstone 3 launch, mercury redstone 4, mercury redstone failure, mercury redstone launch, mercury redstone rocket, mercury rocket, mr-1, nasa launch failure, nasa mercury, nasa mercury launch, nasa mercury mission, nasa mercury program, OLHZN, Overlook Horizon, project mercury, redstone, Rocket, rocket launch, rocket launch fail, rocket launch failure, space race|

Mercury-Redstone 1 (MR-1) was the tenth Mercury Program test flight and the first Mercury-Redstone uncrewed flight test. It was the first attempt to launch a Mercury spacecraft with the Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle. Intended to be an uncrewed sub-orbital spaceflight, it was launched on November 21, 1960 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The launch [...]