• A Mercury-Atlas rocket launching from a launch pad.
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    The Mercury-Atlas Launch Vehicle was developed from the U.S. Air Force's Atlas ballistic missile. It was used in the Mercury Program Earth orbital flights of astronauts John H. Glenn, Jr. (Friendship 7), Scott M. Carpenter (Aurora 7), Walter M. Schirra (Sigma 7), and L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. (Faith 7). Image courtesy of NASA.

  • A Mercury-Atlas rocket launching from a launch pad.

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April 25, 1961

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