This historical photograph shows the installation of a Mercury capsule and escape system on the top of booster prior to test firing of Mercury-Redstone at the Redstone test stand at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). 1960. Assembled by MSFC, Mercury-Redstone was designed to place a manned space capsule in orbital flight around the earth and recover both safely. The MSFC, located in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. An optimised version of an original NASA image. Credit: NASA

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Size: 2398px × 3000px
Location: USA, Alabama, Redstone Arsenal, Marshall Space Flight Center
Photo credit: © NASA / digitaleye / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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