LJ1
21 August 1959
N/A
20s
Test of launch escape system during flight.
Big Joe 1
9 Semptember 1959
N/A
13m 00s
Test of heat shield and Atlas / spacecraft interface
LJ-6
4 October 1959
N/A
5m 10s
Test of spacecraft aerodynamics and integrity
LJ-1A
4 November 1959
N/A
8m 11s
Test of launch escape system during flight
LJ-2
4 December 1959
N/A
11m 6s
Carried
Sam
, a rhesus macaque, to 85 kilometres in all
LJ-1B
21 January 1960
N/A
8m 35s
Carried
Miss Sam
to 9.3 statute miles (15 kilometres) in
Beach Abort
9 May 1960
N/A
1m 31s
Test of the off-the-pad abort system
MA-1
29 July 1960
13:13
3m 18s
First flight of Mercury / Atlas
LJ-5
8 November 1960
N/A
2m 22s
First flight of a production Mercury spacecraft
MR-1
21 November 1960
N/A
2s
Launched 4 inches (100 mm); settled back on pad due to
electrical malfunction
MR-1A
19 December 1960
N/A
15m 45s
First flight of Mercury / Redstone
MR-2
31 January 1961
16:55
16m 39s
Carried the chimpanzee
Ham
on suborbital flight
MA-2
21 February 1961
14:10
17m 56s
Unmanned test
LJ
18 March 1961
N/A
Test of the launch escape system during the most severe
conditions of a launch
MRBD
24 March 1961
17:30
8m 23s
Redstone development test flight
MA-3
25 April 1961
16:15
7m 19s
Contained "robot astronaut"
LJ-5B
28 April 1961
N/A
5m 25s
Test of the launch escape system during the most severe
conditions of a launch
MA-4
13 September 1961
14:09
1h 49m 20s
Unmanned test, completed one orbit
MS-1
1 November 1961
15:32
44s
Test of Mercury tracking network
MA-5
29 November 1961
15:08
3h 20m 59s
Carried the chimpanzee
Enos
on a two-orbit flight
Mercury - Atlas Index
General: - Mercury Seven
- (In Suborbit): Alan Shepard
- Gus Grissom
Astronauts: - (in oribit): John Glenn
- Scott Carpenter
- Wally Schirra
- Gordon Cooper
- (Did not fly): Deke Slayton
Equipment: - Navy Mark IV (Spacesuit)
Test Animals: - Miss Sam
- Ham
- Enos
Subprogrammes -Mercury-Atlas
- Mercury-Redstone
- Mercury-Scout
- Big Joe
- Mecury-Jupiter (Cancelled)
Rockets: - Atlas
- Redstone
- Blue Scout II
- Little Joe
- Jupiter (Proposed)
Other: - Mercury 13 (Non NASA project inspired by Project
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