Big Joe

Artifact — Date: 2022 | Photo by: Chris Griffith

This boilerplate was design to test the ablation heatshield that was to used to protect that capsule upom re-entry. It was also the first launch of a Mercury capsule atop an Atlas booster.

Type: Mercury
Kind: Boilerplate
Flight: Big Joe
Location: Udvar-Hazy Center, National Air and Space Museum, Chantilly, Virginia

Older Display

Location: National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C.
Date: 2014
Photos by: Chris Griffith