Mercury-Little-Joe 5A

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Mission dates
Mission: Little Joe 5A (LJ-5A)
Spacecraft: Serial number 14
Launcher: Little Joe
Begin: March 18, 1961, 16:49 UTC
Starting place: Wallops Flight Facility , Virginia
Landing: March 18, 1961
Landing place: Atlantic
Flight duration: 23 min 48 s
Earth orbits: suborbital flight
Apogee : 12.4 km
Covered track: 29 km
Maximum speed: 2869 km / h
Maximum acceleration: 8 g
Start photo
Little Joe 5A preparing for takeoff
Little Joe 5A preparing for takeoff
◄ Before / After ►
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Little-Joe 5A (LJ-5A) was an unmanned test flight as part of the Mercury program to test the rescue system. The mission was a failure because, as with Mercury-Little-Joe 5, the rescue missiles detonated without removing the capsule from the missile. Therefore the flight had to be repeated again with Mercury-Little-Joe 5B . By igniting the re-entry engines, the capsule could be separated from the rocket and after unfolding the parachutes, the almost undamaged capsule watered in the Atlantic. It was recovered and is currently on view at the Virginia Air and Space Center , Hampton , Virginia .

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