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  Little Joe II
The Little Joe II, originally conceived in June 1961, was a solid-fuel rocket booster which would be used to man-rate the launch escape system for the command module.
Its objectives were to prove the Little Joe's capability as an Apollo spacecraft test vehicle and to determine base pressures and heating on the missile.
A Little Joe II failure investigation presentation was made at MSC July 13 in which General Dynamics/ Convair (GD/C) and MSC's Engineering and Development (EandD) Directorate presented results of independent failure investigations of the mishap which occurred during Apollo Mission A-003 (Boilerplate 22) on June 22, 1965, at WSMR.
www.astronautix.com /lvs/litjoeii.htm   (3152 words)

  
 Rocket Jones: Little Joe I
Little Joe I was designed to test the emergency escape system of the Mercury capsules that would ride atop Atlas and later Redstone rockets.
Because the Little Joe flights were numbered according to mission goals and not chronologically, the first mission was LJ-6.
Sam, her male counterpart, made the flight on the 3rd launch of the Little Joe I. Both emerged from their test flights in fine shape, and Sam experienced 3 minutes of weightlessness at his apogee of 53 miles.
rocketjones.mu.nu /archives/062317.php   (779 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Joe Lieberman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
When Republican control of the Senate resumed in January 2003, Lieberman resumed his role as ranking minority member of the committees he had once chaired.
Joe Lieberman gained national recognition when Al Gore picked him as running mate in 2000.
In August 2000, the presumptive-Democratic nominee for president, Al Gore, tapped Lieberman to be his vice-presidential running mate.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Joe_Lieberman   (1509 words)

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