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Third LITTLE JOE successfully launched at NASA Wallops Station as part of Project Mercury development program, carried a monkey named "Sam" 55 miles into space which was recovered safely.

Fourth LITTLE JOE fired Mercury capsule in successful test of emergency-escape system to an altitude of 9 ...

... . Japanese Space Development Council recommended initiation of basic studies for launching an earth satellite. NASA LITTLE JOE test flight of Mercury capsule, capsule did not separate from booster. November 1960 November Nov ...

... the Redstone, Jupiter C , Juno I and II, and Mercury-Redstone launches, as well as Little Joe II in support of the Apollo program. ''(CR, 2/1/73, S1798; Draft KSC Hist ...

... 19 satellites. From Wallops, rhesus monkeys Sam and Miss Sam rode into space on a Little Joe booster in 1959-60 to test the Mercury spacecraft before Alan B. Shepard took it ...

... Soviet Spacecraft at 51.6° inclination Robert D. Christy 80 - The Last Ditch - The Apollo/Little Joe II Abort Tests Curtis Peebles 81 - Space Report 85 - Satellite Digest Robert D. Christy 91 ...

... in 1966. In 1963 he joined NASA to develop the flight control system for the Little Joe II Booster Vehicle. Later, Dr. Cox became the Technical Manager for the Apollo Digital Control ...

... and then a bumper here or there with rockets, you know, you had a little time, a little lead time. Then we went to LM 4. Well, LM 3 was already off ... . Joe Joseph F. Shea was the manager of Apollo when the accident occurred. About two days after the—no, I had come back from Downey, so it must have been a little bit longer than that—but my secretary come in there and said, “Joe Shea’s in your outer office and he wants ...

... grew. So that's how that whole thing got started, and obviously we had a little fun with it. '''Butler:''' Yes, some interesting things included in those checklists. '''Gibson:''' Right. Yes ... 're going to operate each piece of equipment. And then on one little sheet of paper—well, it wasn't little, it was eleven-by-seventeen, show a good sequence of the ... these procedures to fix the space station. I did a little capcomming as a result of that, when Pete and Joe were out there trying to cut the strap that the one ...

... was wonderful, because some crew members are a little more insightful and intuitive and understand how to use their support crew better than others. Joe knew how to use us, and so ... —we were like three months, a little over three months away, and we were talking about it. Of course, Ox van Hoften is six-four. Joe Allen is five-four, if he ... big guy, and he says, “Here’s the SYNCOM.” He draws a little guy, and he says, “Here’s Joe Allen, and there’s a PALAPA. So if he can grab that ...

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