File:Mercury-Atlas 1 liftoff.jpg

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Description

English: Launch of the unmanned Mercury Atlas-1 (MA-1) spacecraft for a suborbital test flight of the Mercury capsule reentry, which did not achieve orbit. The Atlas exploded 65 seconds after launch.

Date

29 July 1960

Source

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/mercury/mercury_ov/html/s61-01205.html

Author

NASA

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	11:51, 9 December 2014	2,931 × 3,242 (1.54 MB)	Revent	Cropped 9 % horizontally and 22 % vertically using CropTool with lossless mode. Crop to better focus on image subject, and remove image edge defects. This is a better match to the original upload.
	11:34, 9 December 2014	3,206 × 4,154 (2.04 MB)	Revent	Higher resolution copy from a different NASA archive, without the yellowing. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/mercury/mercury_ov/html/s61-01205.html
	21:20, 20 October 2011	420 × 472 (33 KB)	Craigboy

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- Мъркюри-Атлас 1
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- マーキュリー・アトラス1号
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- Mercury-Atlas 1
- Atlas LV-3B
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