Mercury-Little-Joe 6 (LJ-6) was an unmanned test flight within NASA’s Mercury program. The flight served to test the rescue rocket, which was located on the non-functional model of the Mercury capsule (Mercury Boilerplate).
The launch was on October 4, 1959 from the launch pad at Wallops Island, Virginia with a Little Joe rocket.
The LJ-6 mission lasted 5 minutes and 10 seconds and flew approximately 127 km and reached a peak altitude of 60 km. The payload (Mercury boilerplate) weighed 1.134 kg.
Mission data |
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Mission |
Mercury-Little-Joe 6 (LJ-6) |
Rocket |
Little Joe |
Spacecraft |
Mercury Boilerplate |
Launch date |
Oktober 4, 1959 |
Launch site |
Launch Area 1 (LA-1), Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia |
Mission duration |
5 min 10 sec |
Altitude |
60 km |
Distance |
127 km |
Velocity |
4,949 km/h |
Max G |
5.9 g |
