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... at White Sands, N. Mex. Apollo command and service boilerplate modules were boosted on a Little Joe II launch vehicle to the region of maximum dynamic pressure at 29,000-ft. altitude ... the spacecraft by a connecting tower, yanked the Apollo free of Little Joe and carried it almost two miles higher. The Little Joe rocket fell to earth; the Apollo modules were returned gently to ...

... , and he was the one that would come in and request services for conditioning the Little Joe before its launch activities. So I got pretty well acquainted with him and started talking ... controlled the loading and the operations of the materials test program. We had the little test chambers with little shelves in it, and we would put in the material that we wanted ... control system to change their attitude up or down or sideways, they started using these little bitty thrusters. To me, that was an interesting concept, because what they originally intended for ...

... amendment to General Dynamics/Convair in the amount of $2,247,174 for two additional Little Joe II solid boosters for use in the Apollo test program. The two new boost­ers ... escape system to separate the command module from the booster. This amendment would bring total Little Joe II procurement costs to $8,928,637, including the four vehicles originally ordered and nearly ... we are to the scientific and tech­nological realities of the recent past, have a little difficulty com­prehending either the reality or the significance concerning the mobility of mankind in ...

... account in doing the trajectory calculations. The sheer scope of the problems were sometimes a little overwhelming. We began dealing with the tracking that went all around the world, and we ... versions of what led to the actual destruction of those aircraft. '''Butler:''' You talked a little bit about computers and the differences between the computers you worked on and these early ... at the back of your mind. But talking about the early missions, there were the Little Joe ones before the Redstone for short flights. A few of those had chimpanzees aboard, and ...

... was ready? '''Jackson:''' From an aerodynamics standpoint—I can talk from a project standpoint a little bit, or an aerodynamics standpoint. Aerodynamics standpoint we had no problem with it. There’d ... was encouraged. '''Jackson:''' Yes ma’am, absolutely. That was a big thing. '''Johnson:''' Well, the Little Joe 2 program, Milt Milton A. Silveira, we’ve talked to him. '''Jackson:''' He was my ...

... model of Apollo spacecraft (command and service modules) was mounted on Little Joe II . At altitude of 17,000 ft. the Little Joe II was exploded. Instantly the rockets in the escape tower ignited ...

A 71-ton Little Joe II rocket fired from White Sands Missile Range , N. Mex, to test the Apollo spacecraft ... event of a Saturn launch vehicle failure either on the pad or during powered flight. Little Joe II had been programed to carry the test vehicle, Boilerplate 22, to 22-mi,-altitude ...

... General Dynamics/Convair to design and manufacture "Little Joe II" launch vehicle to be used to boost the Apollo spacecraft on unmanned suborbital test flights. Little Joe II will be powered by solid-fuel ...

... slight to be read on present cockpit instruments. Eastern found that temperature change of as little as one degree Centigrade over two-min, period can indicate aircraft is approaching area of ... control, and telemetry and voice communications. ''(SBD, 2/17/64, 255)'' General Dynamics/Convair shipped Little Joe II booster to White Sands Missile Range , Where it would be used later this year ...

... arrived at White Sands Missile Range , N. Mex., where it would be flight-tested with Little Joe II booster. ''(MSC Release 64-39)'' NASA announced Hughes Aircraft Co. had been awarded contract ... NASA'S selecting Boston as site for new electronics research center, charging that "there is little to indicate that thorough evaluation was given to potential locations distant from the Boston area ...

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