Little Joe 1A (LJ-1A) was an uncrewed rocket launched as part of NASA's Mercury program on November 4, 1959. This flight, a repeat of the Little Joe 1...

The Little Joe 2 was a test of the Mercury space capsule, carrying the rhesus monkey Sam (Macaca mulatta) close to the edge of space. He was sent to test...

Little Joe 1A, a 1959 unmanned NASA launch Mercury-Redstone 1A, a 1969 NASA mission Packard 1A-1500, a 1929 piston aircraft engine Shin Meiwa US-1A,...

Little Joe was a solid-fueled booster rocket used by NASA for eight launches from 1959 to 1961 from Wallops Island, Virginia to test the launch escape...

The Little Joe 6 was a launch escape system test of the Mercury spacecraft, conducted as part of the U.S. Mercury program. The mission used a boilerplate...

"fourth orbit". Little Joe 5B (Spacecraft No 14), Virginia Air and Space Center Big Joe Boilerplate, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center MR-1 & MR-1A (Spacecraft...

Little Joe 1A was launched in a test for a planned abort under high aerodynamic load conditions. This flight was a repeat of the failed Little Joe 1...

(1,600 km/h; 870 kn) in 1948. A derivative of this same design, the Bell X-1A, having greater fuel capacity and hence longer rocket burning time, exceeded...

Linden. "Out of the Past." Aerospace America, June 1991, p. 5. "X-1A with pilot Joe Walker." Dryden Flight Research Center Photo Archive. Retrieved: September...

launch vehicle. The Atlas was also used for one Mercury flight under the Big Joe subprogram.: 207  The Mercury mission numbering system was: a two-letter...