Mission: Mercury-Atlas 5
Launch Pad: LC-14
Vehicle: Atlas (5)

Milestones:
Not applicable

Payload:
Spacecraft number 9, Launch Vehicle number 93-D

Mission Objective:
Primate test of Environmental Control System in Orbit.

Orbit:
Altitude: 147.4 apogee by 99.5 perigee statute miles
Orbits: 2
Period: 88 minutes, 26 seconds
Duration: 0 Days, 3 hours, 20 minutes, 59 seconds
Distance: 50,892 statute miles

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Launch:
November 29, 1961, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

Landing:
Not Applicable

Mission Highlights:
November 29, 1961, 3 hours and 22 minutes after launch. The capsule was spotted by a P5M search airplane at an altitude of 5,000 feet. The ships Stormes and Compton were contacted and they moved into position from a distance of 30 miles away. The "Stormes" arrived in the area 1 hour and 15 minutes after landing and hauled the capsule aboard via its lanyard, cracking the onboard window.

Enos, the orbiting chimpanzee fared well. He withstood a peak of 6.8g during booster-engine acceleration and 7.6g with the rush of the sustainer engine.

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