Mercury-Redstone 1A (MR-1A) was launched on December 19, 1960 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission objectives of this uncrewed suborbital flight were to qualify the spacecraft for space flight and qualify the system for an upcoming primate suborbital flight. December 19, 1960 at 16:15 UTC · Launch Successful Redstone MRLV — National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to Suborbital Launch Complex 5, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Program: Mercury Data: Launch Library 2, The Space Devs. Image via The Space Devs.