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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

Date
1959-10-04
Photographer / author
NASA
Collection
LARC
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
photograph

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"Little Joe Launch" (1959-10-04). NASA/LARC. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/LRC-1959-B701_P-05137

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