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    
                                  Mercury

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