Little Joe 1

Mercury -Little Joe 1 ( LJ -1) was an unmanned spacecraft NASA. It was the first mission of the Mercury program.

Expiration

The mission was to test the goal of the rescue system of the Mercury capsule. The start was provided on 21 August 1959 by the Wallops Flight Facility launch pad of a rocket of the type Little Joe. 30 minutes before the scheduled start time, however, the rescue rocket lit spontaneously, the Mercury capsule reached a peak altitude of 600 m. There was no separation of the rocket apparatus of the capsule and the parachutes were not ejected, so that the capsule unrestrained after 20 seconds, hit about 800 m away from the launch pad in the Atlantic Ocean. As a source of error, a wrong connection of the batteries was identified in the rescue rocket.

Specifications

• Take off weight: 18,747 kg
• Height: 14.6 m
• Diameter: 2 m
• Payload: 1788 kg
• Off thrust: 1,110 kN

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