Redstone Test Stand at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center was declared a National Historic Landmark. Here, a Mercury capsule and escape system are installed on top of a booster prior to test firing of the Mercury-Redstone in 1960.
This week in 1985, the Redstone Test Stand at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center was declared a National Historic Landmark. Here, a Mercury capsule and escape system are installed on top of a booster prior to test firing of the Mercury-Redstone in 1960. The NASA History Program documents and preserves NASA’s remarkable history through a variety of products — photos, press kits, press releases, mission transcripts and administrators’ speeches. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the History Program’s Web page.
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