Sujet

Little Joe 5B High-Q-Abort Test, 1961. Creator: NASA.

Légende

Little Joe 5B High-Q-Abort Test, 1961. "Little Joe" 5B launched a Mercury spacecraft in a high-Q-abort test. The ring-sail parachute lands the spacecraft off the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia, USA. The Little Joe rocket booster was developed as a cheaper, smaller, and more functional alternative to the Redstone rockets. Little Joe could be produced at one-fifth the cost of Redstone rockets and still have enough power to carry a capsule payload. Seven unmanned Little Joe rockets were launched at Wallops Island from August 1959 to April 1961.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Space

Notre référence

HRM21B20_163

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Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

17,3Mo (983,0Ko) / 17,8cm x 24,4cm / 2100 x 2879 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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