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Mercury-Redstone (1961)
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SCALE: 1/48 |
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INITIAL RELEASE: 2005 |
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MEDIUM: Resin/Polystyrene |
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RARITY: (2) |
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Freedom 7 Liftoff - May 5, 1961 |
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ABOUT THE DESIGN |
ABOUT THE KIT |
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To test the efficacy of NASA's one-man
Mercury spacecraft -- and to rack up an achievement that could conceivably
compete with the Soviets -- the American space agency deemed that its first
manned spaceflight would be a sub-orbital jaunt using the Army's proven Redstone
missile. A direct descendent of the German's World War II-era V-2 program,
the Redstone was a simple cylindrical medium-range ballistic missile that had
first been successfully launched in 1953, had served as the basis of the
satellite launch Jupiter-C in 1958, and had been formally deployed worldwide in
1959. America's first manned spacecraft, Freedom 7, piloted by Astronaut Alan Shepherd, blasted into space on May 5, 1961 -- almost a month after the Russians launched Yuri Gagarin into orbit on April 12. The second and final Mercury-Redstone flight was Virgil "Gus" Grissom's Liberty Bell 7, which launched on July 21, 1961. |
This conversion kit from Attic Models was
released in early 2005. It allows the builder to combine a Hawk/Glencoe
1:48 Jupiter-C model with Revell's classic 1:48 Mercury capsule (from the
Mercury/Gemini combo kit) to create the classic Mercury-Redstone system. This model was built from the original Attic conversion set, the Glencoe Jupiter C and the Monogram "Gus Grissom Memorial Combo" set. |
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Original Box Art |
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Re-Release Box Art |
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