Redstone Rocket Replica - Concord, NH
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N 43° 13.503 W 071° 31.901
19T E 294397 N 4788918
A 92-foot high replica of Alan Shepard's Redstone Rocket.
Waymark Code: WM5Y41
Location: New Hampshire, United States
Date Posted: 02/28/2009
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The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord, NH is a planetarium and and air & space museum. A recent addition to their display collection is this 92-foot high replica of a NASA Redstone rocket. This type of rocket carried the first American into space - Alan B. Shepard, on May 5, 1961.
Where is original located?: lobby of the Armel-Leftwich Visitor Center, at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD (Capsule); Bottom of the Atlantic Ocean (Rocket)
Where is this replica located?: The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord, NH
Who created the original?: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Internet Link about Original: <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_3<link>
Year Original was Created (approx. ok): 1960
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