Monday, July 25, 2011

Liberty Bell 7

Astronaut Gus Grissom climbs into his 'Liberty Bell 7' spacecraft on July 21, 1961. The Mercury-Redstone 4 rocket successfully launched the Liberty Bell 7 at 7:20 a.m. that morning. This was the second in a series of successful U.S. manned suborbital flights.

Image Credit: NASA

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