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LJ-1B
Little Joe · Test Flight
1960Launch Area 1, Wallops Flight Facility
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.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- NASA
- Rocket
- Little Joe
- Orbit
- Sub
- Pad
- Launch Area 1
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2