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S61-01372 (21 Feb. 1961) --- Launch of the unmanned Mercury-Atlas 2 (MA-2) vehicle for a suborbital test flight of...
An Atlas launch vehicle carrying the Big Joe capsule leaves its launching pad on a 2,000-mile ballistic flight to...
The launch of the Little Joe booster for the LJ1B mission on the launch pad from the wallops Flight Facility,...
Molds for couches for test pilots, line the NASA Langley Research Centers model shop wall. The names of the test...
Molds for couches for test pilots, line the NASA Langley Research Centers model shop wall. The names of the test...
S61-01398 (18 March 1961) --- View of the recovery of the Little Joe-5A spacecraft which lifted off on March 18,...
A three-year-old chimpanzee, named Ham, in the biopack couch for the MR-2 suborbital test flight. On January 31,...
A three-year-old chimpanzee, named Ham, in the biopack couch for the MR-2 suborbital test flight. On January 31,...
Assembling the Little Joe capsules. The capsules were manufactured in-house by Langley technicians. Three capsules...
Assembling the Little Joe capsules. The capsules were manufactured in-house by Langley technicians. Three capsules...
Assembling the Little Joe capsules. The capsules were manufactured in-house by Langley technicians. Three capsules...
Assembling the Little Joe capsules. The capsules were manufactured in-house by Langley technicians. Three capsules...
Assembling the Little Joe capsules. The capsules were manufactured in-house by Langley technicians. Three capsules...
Assembling the Little Joe capsules. The capsules were manufactured in-house by Langley technicians. Three capsules...
S63-20801 (23 Jan. 1961) --- Primate chimpanzee ?Ham?, in his spacesuit, is fitted into the couch of the...
The Mercury space capsule undergoing tests in Full Scale Wind Tunnel, January 1959. Photograph published in Winds of...
S61-01925 (25 April 1961) --- View of the Mercury-Atlas 3 (MA-3) liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida on April 25,...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) photographer Arthur Laufman sets up a camera to film a Mercury...
Technicians attach the escape tower to the Mercury capsule prior to assembly with Little Joe launcher, August 20,...
Technicians adjust the rocket motor during the attachment of the escape tower to the Mercury capsule prior to...
Technicians adjust the rocket motor during the attachment of the escape tower to the Mercury capsule prior to...
Technicians adjust the rocket motor during the attachment of the escape tower to the Mercury capsule prior to...
Technicians attach the escape tower to the Mercury capsule prior to assembly with Little Joe launcher, August 20,...
Technicians adjust the rocket motor during the attachment of the escape tower to the Mercury capsule prior to...