Each week I take The Orbital Mechanics podcast's series "This week in Spaceflight History" and I recreate the mission in Kerbal Space Program with my friend Uncle Dad. This week's mission, LJ-1B occurred on Jan 21, 1960 out of Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Little Joe was a very small suborbital rocket that was used to test the launch escape system of the first manned spacecraft, the Mercury Capsule.
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