Mercury 4

Mercury 4 was a Mercury program manned space mission launched on July 21, 1961 using a Redstone rocket.

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Its capsule was named "Liberty Bell 7" and performed a suborbital flight piloted by astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom. It reached an altitude of over 118.26 statute miles (190 km) and traveled about 300 miles (480 km). The Redstone was MRLV-8 and the spacecraft was Mercury spacecraft # 11, the first one with a centerline window instead of two portholes.

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Mercury 4: Crew ►

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►	Introduction
►	Crew
►	Mission Parameters
►	Liberty Bell 7
►	Mission description
►	External link
►	Mercury Redstone Sub-Orbital Flight Events

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