GIL-3

Model

Model

Mercury Redstone

White, black and tan plastic rocket mounted on light wood base. Fused to mount.

This vehicle made the first two U.S. manned space flights. The Redstone rockets lifted the Mercury capsules containing the astronauts into two brief sub-orbited flights that took them beyond the atmosphere and to the threshold of space. During the first, on May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard flew for fifteen minutes twenty-two seconds to an altitude of one hundred sixteen miles. On July 21, 1961 Virgil Grissom repeated this feat whereupon his Mercury capsule sank into the Atlantic Ocean.

plastic, wood, metal, felt

	Imperial(in)		Metric(cm)
Height	21.88		55.6
Width	4		10.2
Depth	4		10.2
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Circumference