RON DUPAS COLLECTION
No. 837. McDonnell Mercury "Liberty Bell" NASA
Photograph from NASA, taken at Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, July 21, 1961
Photo No. 61-MR4-77
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"Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom climbs into Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft the morning of July 21st. Backup astronaut John Glenn assists in the operation. The Mercury-Redstone 4 successfully launched the Liberty Bell at 7:20 EST. July 21, 1961. It was the second in a series of successful US manned suborbital flights." |