Title

Launch of Mercury-Atlas 4, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA, 13 September 1961. Creator: NASA.

Caption

Launch of Mercury-Atlas 4, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Merritt Island, Florida, USA, 13 September 1961. Launch of Mercury-Atlas 4 (MA-4) spacecraft, an unmanned spaceflight in NASA's Mercury programme.

Date

1961

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Space

Reference

HRM19F02_181

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

58,4Mb (2,4Mb) / 13,3in x 17,0in / 3989 x 5114 (300dpi)

Keywords

Florida space smoke color location century rocket launching launch space exploration space travel launch pad Sixties United States of America Colour Kennedy Space Center 1960s 20th century space flight TGN photograph Mercury-Atlas NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration Heritage Space John F Kennedy Space Center John F. Kennedy Space Center KSC MA-4 Mercury-Atlas 4 photograph