Little Joe | LJ-1B

Launch Provider & Rocket

• Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Government)
• Rocket: Little Joe — Little Joe family

Mission

The Little Joe 1B was a suborbital launch escape system test of the Mercury spacecraft, conducted as part of the U.S. Mercury program. The mission also carried a female rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) named Miss Sam in the Mercury spacecraft.

• Type: Test Flight
• Orbit: Suborbital (Sub)

Launch Site

• Pad: Launch Area 1
• Location: Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
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Program

• Mercury — Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. (Wikipedia)