Pad Abort Test - Project Mercury

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The Mercury program included several pad abort tests for the launch escape system with a boilerplate crew module.

  • 1959 July 22 - First successful pad abort flight test with a functional escape tower attached to a Mercury Boilerplate.
  • 1959 July 28 - A Mercury Boilerplate with instruments to measure sound pressure levels and vibrations from the Little Joe test rocket and Grand Central abort rocket/escape tower.

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