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Little Joe | LJ-5A

LJ-5A

Launch was a Partial Failure

Launch Details

Date: 18 Mar 1961, 04:49 pm UTC

Rocket: Little Joe (Little Joe)

Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Mission

Type: Test Flight

Orbit: Suborbital

Pad: Launch Area 1, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Mission Description

Uncrewed launch escape system test of the Mercury spacecraft, conducted as part of the U.S. Mercury program. It was an attempted re-test of the failed Little Joe 5 flight.