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LJ-5B
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 28 Apr 1961, 02:03 pm UTC
Rocket: Little Joe (Little Joe)
Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission
Type: Test Flight
Orbit: Suborbital
Pad: Launch Area 4, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Mission Description
Little Joe 5B was an uncrewed launch escape system test of the Mercury spacecraft, conducted as part of the US Mercury program.