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THE SPACECRAFT
The first U.S. spaceship was a cone-shaped one-man capsule with a cylinder mounted on top. Two meters (6 ft, 10 in) long, 1.9 meters (6 ft, 2 1/2 in) in diameter, a 5.8 meter (19 ft, 2 in) escape tower was fastened to the cylinder of the capsule.
The Mercury program used two missiles as launch vehicles
The Redstone for the suborbital flights and
the Atlas (right) for the four orbital flights.
