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Big Joe Atlas - Mercury spacecraft test Sept 1958
From NASA NIX website:
http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info;jsessionid=ni7kqakgol1q?id=GPN-2002-000045&orgid=12
9/09/1959 - Big Joe ready for launch at Cape Canaveral, FL. The objective of "Big Joe" was to test the ablating heatshield. The flight was both a success and failure - the heatshield survived reentry and was in remarkably good condition when retrieved from the Atlantic. The Atlas-D booster, however, failed to stage and separated too late from the Mercury capsule.
http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info;jsessionid=ni7kqakgol1q?id=MSFC-9139360&orgid=11
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