Big Joe 1
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capsule reentry test flight during Project Mercury
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- flight testing
- Part of
- Project Mercury
- Country
- United States
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- Little Joe 6
- Follows
- Little Joe 1
- Duration
- 780
- Manufacturer
- McDonnell Aircraft Corporation
- Image
- Big Joe Ready for Launch at Cape Canaveral - GPN-2002-000045.jpg
- Significant event
- landing
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- space launch vehicle
- SM-65D Atlas
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 14
- apoapsis
- 153
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1959-09-09
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1959-09-09
- type of orbit
- sub-orbital spaceflight
- carries passengers or cargo
- boilerplate
- Commons category
- Big Joe (rocket)
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