PGM-11 Redstone

The PGM-11 Redstone was the first large American ballistic missile, a short-range weapon developed by Wernher von Braun's team at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, as a direct descendant of the German V-2. It was in active service with the United States Army in West Germany from June 1958 to June 1964 and was the first US missile to carry a live nuclear warhead, in the 1958 Hardtack Teak test. Chrysler Corporation was the prime contractor and built it in Warren, Michigan, while the Rocketdyne division of North American Aviation supplied the rocket engines that burned alcohol and liquid oxygen. The Redstone spawned the Redstone rocket family, whose Jupiter-C and Mercury-Redstone launch vehicles carried the first US satellite and the first US astronaut.