Sunday, December 19, 1999

Mercury-Atlas 5

  1961-033A


The MA-5 flight carried the monkey Enos into orbit. The flight was cut short due to a thruster leak and the spacecraft splashed down after 3h 20m 59s. Enos returned to Holloman in Dec 1961.


MA-5 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1961 Nov 29  1507:57  Launch by Atlas 93D 
 1510:08  T+2:11 BECO 62 km  
 1510:11  T+2:14 Booster sep 
 1510:31  T+2:34 Tower jettison 90 km  
 1512:57 T+5:00 MECO 161 km  
 1513:00 T+5:03 Atlas D sep  158 x 237 x 32.6 
 1808:12  T+3:00:15 Retrofire 
 1809:12 T+3:01:15 Retropack sep  -195? x 174 x 32.6 
 1817:38  Reentry T+3:09:41  
 1828:56  T+3:20:59 Splashdown at 28 57 N 66 04W 
 1944  Recovered by USS Stormes 

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