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LJ-6
Launch was a Partial FailureLaunch Details
Date: 4 Oct 1959, 10:00 am 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
The Little Joe 6 was a launch escape system test of the Mercury spacecraft, conducted as part of the U.S. Mercury program.