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The Redstone was a direct descendant of the German V-2 rocket, developed primarily by a team of German rocket engineers brought to the United States after World War II. The design used an upgraded engine from Rocketdyne that allowed the missile to carry the 6,900 lb (3,100 kg) W39 and its reentry vehicle to a range of about 175 miles (282 km).
The Redstone Rocket may refer to: Redstone (rocket) The Redstone Rocket, a military newspaper serving Redstone Arsenal (near Huntsville, Alabama). A nickname for Jeff ...
The Redstone family of rockets consisted of a number of American ballistic missiles, sounding rockets and expendable launch vehicles operational during the 1950s and 1960s. The first member of the Redstone family was the PGM-11 Redstone missile, from which all subsequent variations of the Redstone were derived.
NASA used Ham to test the Mercury Redstone rocket before humans were sent into space, and to see what effects space travel could have on human bodies, as chimps were considered physiologically close.
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The Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, designed for NASA's Project Mercury, was the first American crewed space booster.It was used for six sub-orbital Mercury flights from 1960–1961; culminating with the launch of the first, and 11 weeks later, the second American (and the second and third humans) in space.
Redstone (rocket family), a U.S. missile and support system, named for the Arsenal; PGM-11 Redstone, U.S. missile and carrier rocket, namesake of the family; USNS Redstone, a tracking/communications ship supporting the Apollo program; Redstone Old Fort, an 18th-century military post in western Pennsylvania
Bloomberg News, citing anonymous sources, reported that Redstone had come to a tentative agreement to sell her stake in National Amusements Inc. to David Ellison’s Skydance. NAI holds a nearly ...