NASA Little Joe II A-001

Name: NASA Little Joe II A-001
Start: 1964-05-13T12:59:59.000Z
Location: Launch Complex 36

Little Joe II

Status

Success

Date

13 MAY 1964

12:59

Launch Provider

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Launch Pad

Launch Complex 36

White Sands Missile Range

Mission Overview

Second abort test of the Apollo spacecraft.

Rocket

Little Joe II

Mission Type

Test Flight

Orbit

Suborbital

Stages

Livestream

Not available

Rocket Details

American rocket used from 1963 to 1966 for five uncrewed suborbital tests of the Apollo spacecraft launch escape system and of the command module parachute recovery system in abort mode.

Height

26.2 m

Diameter

3.9 m