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((More citations needed|date=November 2007))
((Infobox spaceflight<!--technically not a spaceflight, but template seems best fit for this article-->
| name                  = Little Joe 1
| image                 = Little Joe on launcher at Wallops Island - GPN-2000-001883.jpg
| image_caption         = Little Joe 1 prepares for launch.
| insignia              = Mercury insignia.png

| mission_type          = Max Q abort and escape test
| operator              = ((flagicon|USA)) [[NASA]]
| mission_duration      = 20 seconds
| distance_travelled    = ((convert|610|m|ft|disp=flip))
| suborbital_apogee     = ((convert|610|m|ft|disp=flip))

| spacecraft_type       = [[Project Mercury#Spacecraft|Mercury]] boilerplate
| manufacturer          = [[McDonnell Aircraft]]
| launch_mass           = ((convert|2555|lb|kg|disp=flip))
| landing_mass          =

| launch_date           = ((start-date|21 August 1959))<br /><small>Launch Escape System fired 30 minutes before planned launch</small>
| launch_rocket         = [[Little Joe (rocket)|Little Joe]]
| launch_site           = [[Wallops Flight Facility|Wallops]] [[Wallops Flight Facility Launch Area 1|LA-1]]

| landing_date          = ((end-date|21 August 1959))
| landing_site          =

| previous_mission      = 
| next_mission          = [[Little Joe 6]]
| programme             = [[Project Mercury]]<br /><small>Abort Tests</small> 
))
'''Little Joe 1''' (LJ-1) was a failed launch of a [[Little Joe (rocket)|Little Joe]] by [[NASA]], a [[solid fuel]] [[rocket]] that was designed for a Max Q abort and [[launch escape system]] test for the Mercury capsule. The objective was to determine how well the escape rocket would function under the most severe dynamic loading conditions anticipated during a Mercury-Atlas launching.<ref>((cite web |url=http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/history/mercury/lj-1/lj-1.htm |title= Project Mercury unmanned Missions: LJ-1|website= |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120527104820/http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/history/mercury/lj-1/lj-1.htm|access-date=2020-01-14|archive-date= 2012-05-27))((title missing|date=May 2022))</ref>

The vehicle was ((convert|15|m|ft|abbr=on)) in height, weighed approximately ((convert|20000|kg|lb|abbr=on)), and was ((convert|2|m|in|abbr=on)) in diameter with a fin span of ((convert|6.5|m|ft|abbr=on)). The Little Joe booster consisted of four [[Pollux Rocket|Pollux]] and four [[Recruit Rocket|Recruit]] clustered, solid-fuel rockets, could develop a [[thrust]] of ((convert|250000|lbf|kN|abbr=on|lk=on)), and could lift a maximum [[Payload (air and space craft)|payload]] of ((convert|3942|lb|kg|abbr=on)).((Citation needed|date=November 2007)) The escape system, using a Grand Central 1KS52000 rocket motor, weighed ((convert|460|kg|lb|abbr=on)).

On 21 August 1959, LJ-1 was being prepared for launch from the [[Wallops Flight Facility]], [[Wallops Island]], [[Virginia]]. At 35 minutes before launch, evacuation of the area had been proceeding on schedule and the batteries for the programmer and destruct system in the test booster were being charged. Suddenly, half an hour before launch time, an explosive flash occurred. When the smoke cleared it was evident that only the capsule-and-tower combination had been launched, on a trajectory similar to an off-the-pad abort. The booster and adapter-clamp ring remained intact on the launcher. Near apogee, at about 610 m, the clamping ring that held tower to capsule released and the little pyro-rocket for jettisoning the tower fired. The flight time was 20 seconds.<ref>((cite web |url=http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/history/mercury/lj-1/lj-1.htm |title= Project Mercury unmanned Missions: LJ-1|website= |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120527104820/http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/history/mercury/lj-1/lj-1.htm|access-date=2020-01-14|archive-date= 2012-05-27))((title missing|date=May 2022))</ref>

The accident report for LJ-1, issued 18 September 1959, blamed the premature firing of the Grand Central escape rocket on an electrical leak, or what missile engineers call transients or ghost voltages in a relay circuit. The fault was found in a coil designed to protect biological specimens from too rapid an abort.<ref>Reference NASA SP-4201 p. 208</ref>

According to the 18 September 1959 accident report, the unexpected triggering of the launch escape system was caused by a transient or electrical leak; analysis showed it to be due to the rapid-abort system being wired directly into the destruct arming [[busbar]]. The batteries were shipped from England to the U.S. uncharged and shorted; on charging at the pad, the batteries, when enough charge was reached, actuated the sequencer for the abort system, and sensing insufficient altitude, fired the squibs in the abort motor. Insufficient power in the batteries then failed to initiate the tower jettison motor and capsule parachute recovery charge, and both crashed into the sea.<ref name="shortal">((Cite journal |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19790011995/downloads/19790011995.pdf |title=A New Dimension. Wallops Island Flight Test Range: The First Fifteen Years |journal=NASA Reference Publication |issue=1028 |first=Joseph Adams |last=Shortal |date=December 1978 |page=199 |accessdate=2021-06-26))</ref>
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== Notes and References ==
((reflist))

== External links ==
*[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4201/cover.htm This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury&mdash;NASA SP-4201]

((Project Mercury))

[[Category:Project Mercury]]
[[Category:1959 in spaceflight]]

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