Mercury-Jupiter (center) compared with Redstone (left) and Atlas (right). Mercury-Jupiter was a proposal, and not launched
Mercury-Jupiter was a proposed suborbital launch configuration consisting of a Jupiter missile carrying a Mercury capsule. Two flights were planned in support of Project Mercury. On July 1, 1959, less than a year after the October, 1958 program start date, the flights were canceled due to budget constraints.[1] The MJ-1 flight would have been a heat shield test. The MJ-2 flight was planned as a maximum dynamic pressure qualification test of the production Mercury spacecraft with a chimpanzee on board.[2]
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This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- ↑ NASA SP-4001
- ↑ Astronautix.com Mercury-Jupiter MJ-2 Archived 2011-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
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