File:Mercury-Redstone 4 Launch MSFC-6414824.jpg

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Description	English: Liftoff of Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4), Liberty Bell 7, on July 21, 1961. The MR-4 mission was the second U.S. manned sub-orbital flight and carried astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom into space aboard the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft for a duration of 15-1/2 minutes.
Date	21 July 1961
Source	Marshall Space Flight Center's Marshall Image Exchange, http://mix.msfc.nasa.gov/abstracts.php?p=2166.
Author	NASA

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	23:29, 4 May 2009	2,332 × 3,000 (8.26 MB)	Colin Douglas Howell	{{Information \|Description={{en\|1=Liftoff of Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4), Liberty Bell 7, on July 21, 1961. The MR-4 mission was the second U.S. manned sub-orbital flight and carried astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom into space aboard the Liberty Bell 7 spacec