NASA Atlas LV-3B Mercury-Atlas 5
Atlas LV-3B
Status
Success
Date
29 NOV 1961
15:07
Launch Provider
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Launch Pad
Space Launch Complex 14
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Overview
Mercury-Atlas 5 was an American spaceflight of the Mercury program. It was launched on November 29, 1961, with Enos, a chimpanzee, aboard. The craft orbited the Earth twice and splashed down about 200 miles (320 km) south of Bermuda, and Enos became the first primate from the United States and the third great ape to orbit the Earth.
Rocket
Atlas LV-3B
Mission Type
Test Flight
Orbit
Low Earth Orbit
Stages
1
Livestream
Not availableRocket Details
The Atlas LV-3B, Atlas D Mercury Launch Vehicle or Mercury-Atlas Launch Vehicle, was a human-rated expendable launch system used as part of the United States Project Mercury to send astronauts into low Earth orbit. Manufactured by American aircraft manufacturing company Convair, it was derived from the SM-65D Atlas missile, and was a member of the Atlas family of rockets.
Height
28.7 m
Diameter
3 m
Launch Mass
120 T
Thrust
1,300 kN