Little Joe Launch
Launching of the LJ6 Little Joe on Oct. 4, 1959 took place at Wallops Island, Va. This was the first attempt to launch an instrumented capsule with a Little Joe booster. Only the LJ1A and the LJ6 used the space metal chevron plates as heat reflector shields, as they kept shattering. Caption title ...and ascending skyward on a plume of exhaust. Photograph published in Winds of Change, 75th Anniversary NASA publication, page 77, by James Schultz
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NASA ID
LRC-1959-B701_P-05137
Date Created
October 4, 1959
Center
LARC
Media Type
image
Photographer
NASA
Location
Wallops Island
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