Little Joe | LJ-5B
Status: Success | Launched: Apr 28, 1961 14:03 UTC
Launch Provider & Rocket
- Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Government)
- Rocket: Little Joe — Little Joe family
Mission
Little Joe 5B was an uncrewed launch escape system test of the Mercury spacecraft, conducted as part of the US Mercury program.
- Type: Test Flight
- Orbit: Suborbital (Sub)
Launch Site
- Pad: Launch Area 4
- 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.