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Little Joe Launch

NASA / LARC · 1959-10-04 · photograph (digital archive)

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Launching of the LJ6 Little Joe on Oct. 4, 1959 took place at Wallops Island, Va. This was the first attempt to launch an instrumented capsule with a Little Joe booster. Only the LJ1A and the LJ6 used the space metal chevron plates as heat reflector shields, as they kept shattering. Caption title ...and ascending skyward on a plume of exhaust.

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NASA Langley LRC LARC 1959-L-05137 Little Joe Launch Mercury Project LRC-1959-B701_P-05137

Credit lineLittle Joe Launch. NASA/LARC, 1959-10-04. Public domain. ID: LRC-1959-B701_P-05137.

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