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Mercury-Atlas 3
Atlas LV-3B · Test Flight
1961Space Launch Complex 14, Cape Canaveral
Mission
Uncrewed test flight of the Mercury program. The launch proceeded normally until about T+20 seconds when the pitch and roll sequence failed to initiate and the vehicle instead just continued flying straight upward, requiring early termination of the flight.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- NASA
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3B
- Orbit
- Sub
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 14
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2