Redstone rocket

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The Redstone rocket was an early American ballistic missile adapted by NASA as a reliable launch vehicle for the first crewed Mercury spaceflights.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Redstone rocket canonical 6
Redstone MRLV 2
Sparta rocket 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ballistic missile
launch vehicle
configuration single-stage rocket
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
derivativeOf V-2 rocket
surface form: German V-2 rocket
designer Wernher von Braun
developer Army Ballistic Missile Agency
diameter approximately 1.78 meters
enteredService 1958
era Cold War
family Redstone missile family
firstCrewedUSLaunchVehicle true
firstFlight 1953
fuel ethyl alcohol
guidanceSystem inertial guidance
launchedAstronaut Alan Shepard
Gus Grissom
surface form: Virgil I. Grissom
launchedPayload Explorer 1
Mercury-Redstone 3
Mercury-Redstone 4
launchMass approximately 28,000 kilograms
launchSite Cape Canaveral
White Sands Missile Range
surface form: White Sands Proving Ground
length approximately 21 meters
locationOfNameOrigin Huntsville, Alabama
manufacturer Chrysler
surface form: Chrysler Corporation
namedAfter Redstone Arsenal, Alabama
surface form: Redstone Arsenal
notableVariant Jupiter-C rocket
surface form: Jupiter-C

Mercury-Redstone rocket
surface form: Mercury-Redstone

Redstone rocket self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sparta rocket
operator United States Ordnance Department
surface form: United States Army Ordnance Corps
oxidizer liquid oxygen
propulsionType liquid-fueled rocket
range approximately 320 kilometers
retiredFromService 1964
role short-range ballistic missile
status retired
successor Jupiter missile
Saturn I
thrustAtLiftoff approximately 350 kilonewtons
usedAs test vehicle for guidance systems
test vehicle for reentry technology
usedBy NASA
United States Army
usedForProgram NASA Explorer Program
surface form: Explorer satellite program

Jupiter-C test program
Mercury program
surface form: Project Mercury

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Mercury program launchVehicle Redstone rocket
Wernher von Braun notableWork Redstone rocket
United States rocket program developed Redstone rocket
Mercury-Redstone 3 launchVehicle Redstone rocket
this entity surface form: Redstone MRLV
Redstone rocket notableVariant Redstone rocket self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Sparta rocket
Mercury spacecraft launchVehicle Redstone rocket
Mercury-Redstone 4 launchVehicle Redstone rocket
Mercury-Redstone 4 rocketType Redstone rocket
this entity surface form: Redstone MRLV
A-4 rocket influenced Redstone rocket
this entity surface form: U.S. Redstone rocket
Project Orbiter usedLaunchVehicleConcept Redstone rocket