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Old 03-14-2017, 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Brent
Freedom 7 flew on MR-3. The photos on the NASA dot gov website have MR7 on the booster. Is this correct.


The combination of the Mercury capsule and Redstone booster was designated MR (Mercury Redstone)-3 as it was the third launch of this hardware configuration. The NASA site is a typo as there never was a MR-7. Mercury flights received MA designations beginning with John Glenn's flight since the Atlas booster was used and not the Redstone.
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