MISSION NAME
Qualification Test Vehicle
Status
Success
DATE
28 AUG 1963
LAUNCH PROVIDER
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Launch Pad
Launch Complex 36
Description
First test flight of the Little Joe II rocket.
Little Joe II
Rocket Description
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.