Status
Success
Mercury-Atlas 5 (MA-5)
Launch Time
Wed Nov 29, 1961 15:07 UTC
Wed Nov 29, 1961 15:07 UTC
Rocket
Mission Details
Mercury-Atlas 5
Mercury-Atlas 5 was an American unmanned spaceflight of the Mercury program. It was launched on November 29, 1961, with Enos, a chimpanzee, aboard. The craft orbited the Earth twice and splashed down about 200 miles (320 km) south of Bermuda.
Payloads: 1
Low Earth Orbit
Location
LC-14, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
1961
46th orbital launch attempt
Atlas LV-3B
6th mission
4th mission of 1961
3rd successful mission
2nd consecutive successful mission