Little Joe | LJ-1B

Name: Little Joe | LJ-1B
Start: 1960-01-21T14:23:00Z
Location: Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

The Little Joe 1B was a suborbital launch escape system test of the Mercury spacecraft, conducted as part of the U.S. Mercury program. The mission also carried a female rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) named Miss Sam in the Mercury spacecraft.

Mission Details

Launch date: January 21, 1960 at 02:23 PM UTC
Launch vehicle: Little Joe
Operator: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Launch site: Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Mission type: Test Flight