\<COLOUR 1> PAYLOAD: \<COLOUR 0> Dummy Mercury capsule, sometimes with monkey passenger
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH SITE: \<COLOUR 0> White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USA
\<COLOUR 1> COMMENTS: \<COLOUR 0> Rocket to test Mercury spacecraft; first flight August 21, 1959; carries Rhesus monkeys Sam (December 4, 1959) and Miss Sam (January 21, 1960) on ballistic trajectories; Little Joe 2 (first flight August 28, 1963) used on Apollo spacecraft tests.