Juno-1 (5 stage)

No            Type                 Serial      Date             LS          Payload

 49     1     Juno-1 (5 St.)       RS-49 (HE)  23.10.1958    F  CC LC-5     Beacon 1 


Flight 5:   Stage 4 failed to ignite
Flight 8:   Stage 1 collides with upper stages, Stage 2 ignites in wrong direction
Flight 9:   structural failure after 149 sec                        


Serial number encoding for early Redstones and related vehicles:    
                         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8   9   0
                         H U N T S V I L L E   X

						 RS-49 was incorrectly labled "HE" instead of "TE"
						 

Abreviations:                   *       =       suborbital
                                F       =       Failure
                                P       =       partial failure
                                CC      =       Cape Canaveral
                                R&D     =       Research & Development flight