Mission 



Mouse-In-Able 3 



AM #13 (Army Medical 

 sounding rocket) 



AM #18 



AM #23 



Little Joe 3 

 (Mercury) 



Little Joe 4 



Discoverer XVII 

 Discoverer XVIII 



Discoverer XXXII 



NERV 1 



Mercury 2 (MR-2) 



Mercury 3 (MR-3) 

 (Alan B. Shepard, 

 Jr.) 



Mercury 4 (MR-4) 



(Virgil I. Grissom) 



Mercury 5 (MA-5) 



Date 

 7/23/58 



12/58 



5/59 



9/59 



12/4/59 

 1/21/60 



1960 

 1960 



1960 



1961 

 1/3V61 



5/5/61 

 7/21/61 



Duration 

 20m 



NA 



NA 



NA 



11h,6m 



8h,35m 



3d 

 3d 



3d 

 26m 



Comments * 



Carried mouse ("Benji") into 

 sub-orbital flight, monitoring 

 heart rate; mouse not recovered. 



Carried Squirrel monkey ("Old 

 Reliable") and Neurospora spores; 

 Neurospora not recovered. 



Carried Rhesus and Squirrel 

 monkeys ("Able" and "Baker") and 

 biological specimens; partially 

 successful . 



Carried various biological 

 specimens including sea urchin 

 eggs; not recovered. 



Carried Rhesus monkey ("Sam"). 

 High altitude abort test. 



Carried Rhesus monkey ("Miss 

 Sam"). Evaluated launch and abort 

 systems . 



Investigated the space environment 

 using a number of cell types. 



Investigated the space 

 environmentusing a number of cell 

 types. 



Investigated HZE particles using 

 corn seeds. 



Carried Neurospora crassa . 



I6h,39m Carried chimpanzee ("Ham"); 

 booster oversped. 



15m 



16m 



First American in space, 



Suborbital. 



11/29/61 3h,20m Carried chimpanzee ("Enos") 

 (3 rev) 



