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Little Joe | LJ-5B

LJ-5B

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Launch 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.