Mercury-Redstone

Immediately outside the building stood a Redstone mocked up to be a Mercury-Redstone.

During one of our visits, I overheard a Boy Scout leader who had worked on the Redstone when it arrived at the MSSC. He said that they removed the engine so that a pole could be placed inside the missile to stabilize it, and that they added a section to elongate it to represent the Mercury-Redstone configuration.

This booster is now disassembled and in storage at the Air Zoo. See my Michigan Space & Science Center aerial photos for aerial coverage when it was still at the MSSC.

The MSSC was one of the first museums I visited when I started taking aerospace photos; thus, my photo-taking may more aptly be described as "targets of opportunity" (with an order, of sorts, imposed after the fact) rather than the methodical, documentary style I later adopted.