Following the successful suborbital missions of Allan Shepard and Gus Grissom, NASA believed the Mercury capsule was ready for an orbital mission. Â But, there was a problem, the Redstone booster did not have the power to place the Mercury capsule into orbit. Â The Atlas booster had the power to put the capsule in orbit but not the confidence of NASA. Â By September of 1961 Four launches of the mercury-atlas had been made with only a 50 percent success rate…
Tribute to Chimps
Enos
Atlas Missle
Launch
Mercury 5
By Dave
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