Everything you never knew you wanted to know about the Mercury Project
LJ-6
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Description of Mission
From SP-45 Mercury project summary
The little Joe 6 mission was successfully accomplished on October 4, 1959, from the Wallops Station launch site and demonstrated a qualification of the launch vehicle by successfully flying with staged propulsion on a trajectory which gave structural and aerodynamic loads in excess of those expected to be encountered on the other planned Little Joe missions. In addition, a method devised for correcting the launcher settings for wind effects, the performance of the booster command thrust termination system, and the launch operation were checked out satisfactorily. Two minor modifications were made to the Little Joe vehicle as a result of this flight to protect the second-stage rocket motor and the launch vehicle base from heat radiated from the thrusting motors.
