Rocket file · LV-107
Redstone MRLV
Redstone MRLV is an expendable suborbital vehicle built by Chrysler. It stands 25.4 m tall, first flew on 21 November 1960. It has flown 6 times with 5 successes, a success rate of 83.3%. It has nothing on the Launch Library 2 schedule right now.
Specification
Vehicle spec sheet
As listed by Launch Library 2. The cost is Launch Library’s figure, not a quoted price. Figures for rockets outside the sixty most-flown were last read on 2026-11-05.
Flight record
Reliability
About Redstone
The Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, designed for NASA's Project Mercury, was the first American manned space booster. It was used for six sub-orbital Mercury flights from 1960–61; culminating with the launch of the first, and 11 weeks later, the second American (and the second and third humans) in space. The four subsequent Mercury human spaceflights used the more powerful Atlas booster to enter low Earth orbit. A member of the Redstone rocket family, it was derived from the U.S. Army's Redstone ballistic missile and the first stage of the related Jupiter-C launch vehicle; but to human-rate it, the structure and systems were modified to improve safety and reliability.
Upcoming flights
Manifest
Redstone is retired, and no flight is filed.
All upcoming launchesRedstone MRLV in the archive
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Common questions
- How many times has Redstone MRLV flown?
- 6 times, with 5 successes and 1 failures.
- What is Redstone MRLV's success rate?
- 83.3%. That's 5 successful flights out of 6 attempts.
- Is Redstone MRLV reusable?
- No. Launch Library 2 lists Redstone MRLV as expendable, so no stage is recovered to fly again.