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Mercury-Jupiter 2 (MJ-2)

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Mercury Credit: Manufacturer Image

AKA: MJ-2. Launched: End 1961. Number crew: 1 .

In the January 1959 Mercury program plan, flights of the capsule on a Jupiter IRBM were to take place in addition to flights atop the Redstone and Atlas boosters. The second Mercury-Jupiter flight was planned as a maximum dynamic pressure test to qualify a production Mercury capsule with a chimpanzee aboard. A human astronaut was considered briefly before the Mercury-Jupiter flights were cancelled in July 1959 on cost grounds. Mercury-Jupiter 2 was slated to fly in 1960. In the event the Mercury-Redstone flights were a year behind schedule and NASA moved on to the Mercury-Atlas flights in July 1961.

• Mercury-Jupiter 2 (MJ-2) (cancelled) - . Nation: USA. Flight: Mercury-Jupiter 2 (MJ-2). Spacecraft: Mercury. In the January 1959 Mercury program plan, flights of the capsule on a Jupiter IRBM were to take place in addition to flights atop the Redstone and Atlas boosters. The Mercury-Jupiter flights were cancelled in July 1959 on cost grounds..