File:Little Joe 6 launch 10-4-1959 from Wallops Is. Virginia.jpg
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English: Launching of the LJ6 Little Joe on Oct. 4, 1959 took place at Wallops Island, Va. This was the first attempt to launch an instrumented capsule with a Little Joe booster. Only the LJ1A and the LJ6 used the space metal/chevron plates as heat reflector shields, as they kept shattering. |
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| Date | Taken on 4 October 1959Category:United States photographs taken on 1959-10-04 | |||||
| Source | http://nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~2~2~459~101538 | |||||
| Author | NASA | |||||
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This image or video was catalogued by Langley Research Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: L59-5137 and Alternate ID: EL-1996-00068. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. Other languages:
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Category:1959 black and white photographs
Category:Black and white photographs of Virginia in the 1950s
Category:Carrier rocket launches in the United States in the 1950s
Category:Files from NASA with known IDs
Category:Goddard Space Flight Center in 1959
Category:Little Joe 6
Category:PD NASA
Category:United States photographs taken on 1959-10-04

