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LJ-2
Little Joe · Test Flight
1959Launch Area 1, Wallops Flight Facility
Mission
The Little Joe 2 was a suborbital test flight of the Mercury space capsule, carrying the rhesus monkey Sam close to the edge of space. He was sent to test the space equipment and the adverse effects of space on humans.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- NASA
- Rocket
- Little Joe
- Orbit
- Sub
- Pad
- Launch Area 1
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2