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"PROJECT MERCURY TEST -- A specially-modified Redstone booster rocket stands poised and ready to lift a production version Project Mercury spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. The purpose of this test, designated MR-1, is to qualify the spacecraft-booster combination during a flight designed to provide a reentry deceleration of 11 g and a period of weightlessness of approximately five minutes." |
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