NASA Little Joe II Qualification Test Vehicle

Name: NASA Little Joe II Qualification Test Vehicle
Start: 1963-08-28T16:00:02.000Z
Location: Launch Complex 36

Little Joe II

Status

Success

Date

28 AUG 1963

16:00

Launch Provider

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Launch Pad

Launch Complex 36

White Sands Missile Range

Mission Overview

First test flight of the Little Joe II rocket.

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