Little Joe | LJ-5A
Status: Partial Failure | Launched: Mar 18, 1961 16:49 UTC
Launch Provider & Rocket
- Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Government)
- Rocket: Little Joe — Little Joe family
Mission
Uncrewed launch escape system test of the Mercury spacecraft, conducted as part of the U.S. Mercury program. It was an attempted re-test of the failed Little Joe 5 flight.
- 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)
Launch data sourced automatically from the Launch Library 2 API. Last refreshed: 2026-10-07T01:00:56.820087+00:00.