Royalty free images by Mike1 – No. 57
Little Joe II, New Mexico Museum of Space History, Alamogordo, New Mexico, October 14, 2011.
Little Joe II was an American rocket used from 1963–66 for five unmanned tests of the Apollo spacecraft Launch Escape System (LES), and to verify the performance of the Command Module parachute recovery system in abort mode. It was named after a similar rocket designed for the same function in Project Mercury. Launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, it was the smallest of four launch rockets used in the Apollo program.2
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Hi Mike – amazing photo … love it – interesting to look at – cheers Hilary
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Thanks! We may make it past that area on our way back home sometime next month.
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