Mercury-Atlas 3, an uncrewed orbital test of the Mercury capsule, lifted off from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 14; about 20 seconds into flight the Atlas failed to start its pitch and roll programme and kept climbing vertically, so the flight was terminated.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 7 Atlas LV-3B flights
- Date and time
- 25 April 1961, 16:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 14, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- Launches in 1961
- 15th of 50