Mercury-Atlas 5
Atlas LV-3B
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission
Mercury-Atlas 5
Type: Test Flight
Mercury-Atlas 5 was an American spaceflight of the Mercury program. It was launched on November 29, 1961, with Enos, a chimpanzee, aboard. The craft orbited the Earth twice and splashed down about 200 miles (320 km) south of Bermuda, and Enos became the first primate from the United States and the third great ape to orbit the Earth.
Location
Launch Complex 14
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
864 rockets have launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, USA.
Rocket
Atlas LV-3B – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Family: Atlas
Length: 28.7 m
Diameter: 3 m
Launch Mass: 120 T
Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 1360 kg
The Atlas LV-3B was manufactured by National Aeronautics and Space Administration with the first launch on 1960-07-29. Atlas LV-3B has 7 successful launches and 3 failed launches with a total of 10 launches. The Atlas LV-3B, Atlas D Mercury Launch Vehicle or Mercury-Atlas Launch Vehicle, was a human-rated expendable launch system used as part of the United States Project Mercury to send astronauts into low Earth orbit. Manufactured by American aircraft manufacturing company Convair, it was derived from the SM-65D Atlas missile, and was a member of the Atlas family of rockets.
Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Type: Government
Abbreviation: NASA
Administration: Administrator: Bill Nelson
Founded: 1958
Launchers: Space Shuttle | SLS
Spacecraft: Orion
Country: USA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
