File:Mercury-Redstone 3 Launch S61-02408.jpg

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DescriptionMercury-Redstone 3 Launch S61-02408.jpg	English: Launching of flight Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3), the first U.S. manned space flight, from Cape Canaveral on May 5, 1961, on a sub-orbital mission.
Date	5 May 1961
Source	Johnson Space Center's Digital Image Collection, http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/luceneweb/caption_direct.jsp?photoId=S61-02408.
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current	22:17, 11 March 2023	2,373 × 3,000 (1,005 KB)	Caddyshack01	Higher resolution and better quality version of the image
	20:15, 6 May 2009	363 × 477 (18 KB)	Cropbot	upload cropped version, operated by User:Colin Douglas Howell. Summary: cropped
	06:07, 6 May 2009	640 × 480 (27 KB)	Colin Douglas Howell	{{Information \|Description={{en\|1=Launching of flight Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3), the first U.S. manned space flight, from Cape Canaveral on May 5, 1961, on a sub-orbital mission.}} \|Source=Johnson Space Center's Digital Image Collection, http://images.jsc

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File:Mercury-Redstone 3 Launch S61-02408.jpg

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