Mercury Project
An Atlas launch vehicle carrying the Big Joe capsule leaves its launching pad on a 2,000-mile ballistic flight to the altitude of 100 miles. The Big Joe capsule is a boilerplate model of the marned orbital capsule under NASA's Project Mercury. The capsule was recovered and studied for the effect of re-entry heat and other flight stresses.
- Date
- 1959-09-01
- Collection
- MSFC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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