NASA SPACE CENTER HUNTSVILLE SERIES
Meanwhile, the von Braun team was thinking bigger, clustering elements of the Jupiter and Redstone rockets to make a series of giant multi-engine boosters. lifts off from Cape Canaveral on May 5, 1961.
The Redstone rocket carrying Mercury astronaut Alan B. 31, 1958, and Redstone rockets boosted the Mercury capsules flown by astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom in 1961.
A Jupiter rocket launched Explorer I, the first U.S. Although they were conceived as weapons, both later became famous for civilian missions. The German team, augmented by American military and civilian personnel, developed two new missiles: Redstone and Jupiter. In 1950 the team was moved to the grounds of Redstone Arsenal, an ammunition factory and test facility outside Huntsville, where they began work as the Army Ordnance Guided Missile Center, part of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. The group had been housed for a few years at Fort Bliss, Texas, where they supervised test firings of captured German V-2 rockets at nearby White Sands Proving Ground. The Center's original core of rocketry talent was a team of about 125 Nazi engineers, led by Wernher von Braun, who had surrendered to the U.S.
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