Big Joe

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