These Little Joes Helped Put Men into Space
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Here's more info on the Little Joe launches, as promised!
- Little Joe 1: August 21, 1959. Max Q abort and escape test failed when, half an hour before launch, the capsule-and-tower combination launched before the rocket.
- Little Joe 2: October 4, 1959. Test of Capsule aerodynamics and integrity was partially successful.
- Little Joe 1A: November 4, 1959. Another Max Q abort and Escape Test. Launch and recovery were successful but it the LES didn't quite launch at Max Q so it was partially successful.
- Little Joe 2: December 4, 1959. Primate escape at high altitude worked fairly well, but a windage error sent the capsule lower than planned peak altitude. Sam experienced only three minutes of weightlessness, not four; got my number wrong in the video and didn't catch the speako!
- Little Joe 1B: January 21, 1960. Yet another Max Q abort and escape test and this time it all worked out!
- Little Joe 5: November 8, 1960. Qualify MAC Spacecraft at Max Q. This was the one where the capsule separated too early. And if failed.
- Little Joe 5A: March 18, 1961. Max Q escape and impact test to demonstrate structural integrity during an Atlas orbital launch. The chutes deployed at 40,000 feet and spared the spacecraft serious damage. It was relaunched on Little Joe 5B.
- Little Joe 5B: April 28, 1961. Max Q escape and sequence. The spacecraft test was successful but the rocket was only partially successful.
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Hey guys! I apparently lost an audio file in editing and that's why there's no narration under a couple of images. I'll add it in with closed captions as soon as I figure out what I missed!
Vintage Space still loved all the info 😎👍 Cheers Doll!
Still really good and interesting!
Vintage Space It's all good, besides you brighten my day every time you put a video out. You're a very beautiful smart woman, I got no complaints ever.
strange stuff happens, especialy with sound it seems. doesn't matter . again a fine work. combines information and a positive, friendly presentation. thumbs up
Vintage Space Have you heard of the cubli? Also, would the cubli be similar to a reaction wheel?
5:00 So, basically, early NASA flights were just like Kerbal Space Program.
The "CRAPS" connection is too funny! Considering how dangerous ANY ride on one of these vehicles was and still is it was VERY appropriate.
I love how at 3:00 one guy is just holding a metal panel with his bare hands while another casually welds it. And then 20 seconds later it's like they're putting together a big model rocket in someone's back yard.
I grew up in this time period, born in 57. Love your video's.
"helped" is a neat word for "got forced to" ;)
Super cool!
I'd always seen snippets here and there but not this much attention payed to these interesting and vital tools we used to get to space.
AWESOME
I just want to let you know that I really like watching your videos you bring the Apollo program back to life for me I was born in 1960 and I remember every one of them and I have learned some stuff that I didn't know keep up the good work and don't worry about the negative comments there will always be haters out there.
Can't hardly wait for your follow-on with the Little Joe II. The Apollo LES test is one of my favorite space stories.
I love the history - and Amy's passion for all things spaceflight!
The Little Joe Apollo Launch Abort video is one of my favourite Moon related clips. A perfect test that was a result of a failure.
Hey, thanks for making this video! I was definitely curious.
Reaaalllly like your dailyish content on space and cool stuff and nerdy stuff and more space. Top 5 channels I've subscribed to!
I so enjoy these, new episodes always put a smile on my face!
I love the little joe rockets
I had heard of Little Joe many years ago and finally got to see one. Actually what I'm calling a 1:1 scale model. It was at the Alamogordo museum. (Wonderful place if you ever get the chance visit it) These pictures don't do it justice. You want to know where the rest of the rocket is. Little is right, but when you know what it can do you are impressed. I hope to go back someday.
Never lose those bangs Amy. Great presentation.
Maybe you can do a comparison between the Orion Capsule versus the Apollo Capsule.
One goes to the moon and the other goes to the moon
That was very interesting, and now I'm anxiously awaiting part two. Good teaser, that one!
My father worked under contract for GE on the Mercury Program. Before I was born, he lived near the Mississippi Test Site and was a constant presence during that time.
Great video. I can't wait for the followup about Little Joe II. I have pics of me standing under the one in Alamogordo as a kid in the early 80s.
I joined a rocket club in the 9th grade (right toward the end of the Apollo project) and remember being entranced by pics of the Little Joes. Perhaps because they were fringe, not famous. That always draws my interest.
Almost all your videos are really excellent, but this one is definitely one of your very best so far! :O)
The first animals who went into space deserve a statute and a madal for bravery
I've read the test reports from all the Castor 1 solid rocket motors. This guys were really efficient, no wasted inert materials in there, at burnout it had already eaten .250 inch of metal at the aft ring ! We were NOT allowed to do that in the 1990s.
I also stumbled across one of those escape tower motors, or a smaller test version in a storage igloo on redstone arsenal around 1990. If ATK moved all Thiokols old stuff they probably blew it up.
Great job digging up all that old footage, kinda surprised any existed.
thank you for the videos, always very informative.
as always with a great video thank you and keep them coming
Been waiting for this one for a while! Thanks Amy!
Interesting! My father worked on this project.He worked for General Dynamics. His name was Duncan Guest. Not sure exactly when but I remember the photos he sent.
Thanks for filling yet another gap in my knowledge of NASA. I had heard of the Little Joe rockets, but knew nothing of their specifics.
Especially enjoyed the etymology of the name "Little Joe" (a reference that I get thanks to the Abbott & Costello movie "Buck Privates.")
Lady you are a fantastic presenter the clearest speech I've heard in a very long time. I find it incredible how much pioneering work North American did and wonder why that spirit has left NASA today.
Great channel! I would love to see a segment on the Delta Clipper DC-X program from the early 90's. It seemed to be ahead of it's time and I always wondered why it wasn't developed further.
Much appreciate the video. Been researching the space program's animal missions. Very rich history.
Thanks for this. I really enjoyed it. Hope the LJ2 video isn't too far off :)
I love your videos on space.
I heard about the name of the Little Joe rocket, but I did not know of its function. I thought it might have been a military rocket, but now I know its purpose. I did not know its importance to the Mercury project. When I was a kid the Estes model rocket company had a scale model of Little Joe you could fly, maybe you can still get it. THANKS as always for your research. I have your book on audio, "Breaking the Chains of Gravity."
I've always wanted to know more about these rockets! Thanks for posting!!
Cheers! Yeah, it's a common question that I realized I've never done. Happy it was helpful!
Vintage Space...I saw in a documentary that one of the Apollo era Little Joe II rockets blew up during flight but the launch escape tower fired as designed and was a success....was there more to this event? Thanks!
+Wes Hawk ... that is a the story for another video
Cool! I didn't know about Little Joe's existence before.
Hi Amy, Little Joe 1 was the day I was born cheers Andrew
Built an Estes Little Joe II back in early 70's. Thing flew great using A8-3 engines, but as usual had to put a C6-5 in it eventually... and that was last time we saw her.
Haha, that was a blow :-)
Thank You I do watching your Videos.
You stimulate my ................. BRAIN.
I think I mentioned this once before, but if you do do an episode on the Little Joe II you've got to include something on the LES test that turned into a live launch abort when the Little Joe II exploded!
You're awesome. I really like your videos XD
Very interesting Amy, and I learned something new today...did not know that NASA had a launch facility on Wallops Island in Va., somehow I missed that while growing up, in my Cocoa Beach/Cap Canaveral centric world (a recently retired Engineer at Lockheed Martin here in Orlando who grew up on Cocoa Beach and whose Dad was an Engineer out at The Cape back in the 50's - 70's.
steve Fowler It's still in use today. In fact they had a launch on 6/29/17. Here is a link to their UStream channel. www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-tv-wallops
I liked the Little Joe flight that had an "unplanned failure" and the EDS sensed the problem and fired the escape rocket.
Hey Amy! I recently came across "The Moose System." It was suppose to be a personal heat shield for an individual Astronaut. Definitely an interesting little know project.
The Bewitched inspired graphic of you on a rocket at the beginning of the video is rad.......
I would love to see a side-by-side US-USSR timeline. Not sure how you'd pull that off with all of the concurrent projects each nation had going on, but it would help put a lot into perspective.
Another great vid, thanks Amy ! How about a future episode on the testing and dev work that was done in Huntsville - Rocket City USA ? Thx
I love your videos.
Hey Amy! Have you ever thought about doing short interviews with people who've done space work? I bet they'd want to tell us about their contributions, and you're the /best/ conduit - beauty, brains, and a huge fanbase!
Alright! Virginia got props in this one...not once but twice!
Hey Amy,
I think you should make a video about the surveyor lunar landing missions.
And, thanks for all of your hard work
Great video. I always thought the little joes were just stage 1 of the saturn.
BTW, Amy, I really like the "pauses" that give us time to soak up the footage of the rockets. I know that we can always just pause the video... but there was just something nice about finally being able to watch the action in motion without a narrator over top of it each time. It was kind of a refreshing change. Something we haven't seen lately since the advent of UA-cam. Most creators 'expect' you to pause these days (if you want to see something) with no consideration for watching video in action without the commentary. Mistake or not - Thank you.
love the images and clips and especially your voice-over @astvintagespace ! Did all the Little Joes launch off-vertical? if so, wjy?
Thanks. I hope you can share footage of an actual test with Lil Joe 2.
Hi Amy. Since seeing you on SciManDan's podcast last week I've been mostly immersed in The Vintage Space and am loving it! I think you have an error in this video: if we're thinking of the same chimp, I believe his name was Ham, not Sam. I grew in New York and had family in D.C. and the NASM was always the first thing I'd drag the family to when sightseeing. When I went to the UH annex they still had the Enterprise orbiter. Now I'm in Florida and Kennedy Space Center is a regular place I visit. Keep up the good work!
Heh. Some time ago I built a "Little Jeb" rocket in KSP to test my capsules. Really practical for such a purpose. :)
You should talk about the time when a Little Joe came apart when testing the escape system for Apollo.
Good vid!
You should do a video on Project Orion! It never flew or anything, but it was a beautiful (not to mention kerbal) vintage idea!
Hey Amy, I was looking through a book I found at Barnes & Noble (X Planes and Prototypes by Jim Winchester), and I found the Soviet equivalent of the modified 747 used in the Shuttle program. It was the Myasischev VM-T Atlant, and it was a plane modified to carry not only the Buran, but the whole Energia rocket system (in separate pieces)! Maybe this would be an interesting subject for a future video...
Thanks for an awesome video! Is there any chanche that you could add technical details in meters and kilograms too?
cool! thanks
Thanks, Amy. I was hoping you'd do a story on the "Joes".
Amy when will you do a video about the various Orion boilerplate capsules especially the ones used in the pad-abort and ascent-abort tests?
As a kid I built and flew a Estes model rocket kit of the little Joe fun times
Good video, Amy, however I wonder if you're going to do a video about the Little Joe II rockets used in the Apollo programme?
Aw, that's a cute little rocket! :P
hi amy, could you please use metric units? thanks
Very interesting, Amy! The Little Joe was a cluster of Sergeant rockets. Wasn't the Saturn I a cluster of Redstones? I seem to remember something about that. If true, the clustering was an accepted means of getting a larger lift capability from existing (and proven) technology. Von Braun's design experience should have been followed from the beginning. If we hadn't let the Navy (with Vanguard) lead us down a rabbit hole Alan Shepard would have been the first man in space by a wide margin.
Maybe. Except for a few launches that were aborted (And Apollo One) at launch. I felt we took the safety of our people seriously. Shepard may have missed out on being the first because it is possible Von Braun may have been overly careful. Care to bet the news would have been along the line of "German kills another American" if something had gone wrong? As they say, it don't matter how you start a race, but that you finish strong. We finished strong and because of what we did tragic events were avoided. Almost every mission had something go wrong that the astronauts had already experienced. Really wonder how many times they did a certain test where the first words were, "String the tanks"
They have a Little Joe with Mercury boiler plate on display at Wallops. Went to an open house there once. Saw several things there that reminded me of a rock band. Weird...
This video makes a very important point, that is usually overlooked and misunderstood. The Mercury program was well under way by 1957, long before the Mercury 7 astronauts were chosen, before even NASA was formed by the 1958 space act.
Amy, could you talk sometime about how astronauts on the moon dealt with moon dust? My guess is that the stuff stuck to the outside of the suits and then got everywhere inside the lander. Was it soft or was it coarse? Did it cause any problems? Did NASA plan for dealing with it, or did the astronauts have to cope with it as they saw fit? Thanks!
They had to dust their suits off vigorously before reentering the LM after each walk, so that dust in 0-G could be reduced.
Great enjoying your videos, Amy. Bring back the adventure of a new frontier. Have a question for you, what is the story behind Apollo 11 filing of an U.S. Customs form upon returning to earth? Were they the only mission to do so?
*watches the Little Joe along with the mercury craft plough into the ground and explode* "Suddenly I think you really should go first Alan"
Would do a video concerning the Mercury capsules LAS, please.
Have you previously made or can you make a video on the air filtration systems of the command and lunar modules of the Apollo spacecrafts please?
Hello Amy! Great video, as always. I have a question for you. Ever since the space race began, Soviet (now Russian built) rocket engines to this day, have always produced more thrust more efficiently than the American counter parts ever thought possible. Maybe a question for Mr. Scott Manley, but I think it could be a very interesting discussion on American engines VS Soviet engines! And also the different types of hypergolic, and hazardous fuels each super power used.
Very enjoyable video. Gotta feel for the chimps. My fear limit is lying back in a dentists chair and I know what's going to happen next.
The chimps actually came later. These were smaller monkeys
Those heavenly globes that have called man's eye and invigorated the imagination for centuries. #Apollopatch #seriously
Hello Amy! Can you please discuss the multiverse and the deep parts of space....Please include the galaxies, big bang, and possible life on other planets light years away... thanks
Amy, is there any footage of emergency escape rocket testing on the ground? I would love to see the emergency rocket lifting a capsule out of harm's way. Thanks for posting the Little Joe footage--I had always been curious about that.
Yes! That might be another video in itself.
The Warped Board there is a video out there where the escape system fired when little joe went out of control; an actual emergency escape during a test.
Fantastic! Thank you!
Thanks for the additional information!
Hey Amy! have you already done a video on why the Mercury capsule had a textured/pitted surface?
Hi Amy, what was the deal with the landing skirt on the Mercury capsules. Why didn't we see those in the later programs?
What do you think of SSTOs? Are are there some fancy ones (as concepts) that I am not aware of.
Can you explain exploding bolts and other kinds of special fasteners that you can't get at Home Depot?
As Scott Manley would say with the Little Joe 5 firing its capsule too early resulting in the main rocket following then boom: CHECK YOUR STAGING.
Maybe I missed the episode but, What about Wallops Island and early tests there. As a Virginian I am interested in learning more about Wallops along with Langley Research center.
Thanks a lot Amy Liar!😼
Anyone misread the title as "These Little *Shoes* Helped Put Men into Space"
Guitarfollower22 The perfect thing for man to take "small steps" 😉
...and giant leaps!
yas girl, we asked and we got, thanks!!!
I don't know if you've done this already... but how about the development history of spacesuits/pressure suits?
Hi Amy, any chance you could add metric units of measurement in future videos please?
Hi Amy! Why are their certain odd textures on spacecraft. The Gemini capsules has these protruding horizontal ridges; the Saturn five had what looks like corrugated steel ridges running down it. Today's spacecraft have just a smooth texture. Was it in the hopes of giving the spacecraft more solid structural support?
Hey Amy, which one was the rocket that started spinning after liftoff and basically spun itself to pieces?
Amy, could you please address the modes of abort for Apollo missions? I really would like to know what would have happened during a moon mission if they committed to an 'abort to orbit.' Did NASA have any alternative plans for an Earth orbit mission, or would the spacecraft have returned home immediately?
Thanks for another great vid.
Can you do an article on the Little Joe II program to test the Apollo CM
That's the followup episode!