Little Joe
Little Joe familyNorth American AviationRetired
Little Joe was a solid-fueled booster rocket used by NASA for eight launches from 1959-1960 from Wallops Island, Virginia to test the launch escape system and heat shield for Project Mercury capsules.
Specifications
- Height
- 17 m
- Diameter
- 2.03 m
- Launch mass
- 12.7 t
- Stages
- 1
Specifications from Launch Library. Figures the operator has not published are omitted.
Flight record
8flightswith a definitive outcome
37.5%success rate3 of 8
1success streakcurrent
Counted from padside's own launch record, the same basis as the stats page.