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| Mercury Redstone Booster Development flight launch cover with Goldcraft cachet, postmarked Port Canaveral, March 24, 1961. |
1961-03-24 USA Mercury Redstone Booster Development
Boiler plate spacecraft used was one previously test flown on Little Joe 1B which provided the proper configuration and weight. Booster development test objectives were met and were successful. (Extracted from the book "PROJECT MERCURY ...one step into space" by Donald O. Schultz)
