flown missionSuccess
Little Joe | LJ-1B
National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationLaunch Area 1 — Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- LJ-1B
- Type
- Test Flight
- Target orbit
- Suborbital (Sub)
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.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Little Joe
- Family
- Little Joe
- Provider
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Type
- Government
- Country
- USA
launch site
- Pad
- Launch Area 1
- Location
- Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/New_York
- Coordinates
- 37.9386, -75.4572