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MA-5 (22)
- Mercury Atlas 5
- Pad 14 ()
- Atlas (5)
Crew: Enos
the chimp
Milestones: n/a
Payload: Spacecraft
No. 9, Launch Vehicle 93-D
Mission Objective: Primate
test of Environmental Control System in Orbit
Orbit:
- Altitude: 147.4 apogee by 99.5 perigee
statute miles
- Orbits: 2
- Period: 88min 26 sec
- Duration: 0 Days, 3 hours, 20 min, 59
seconds
- Distance: 50,892 statute miles
Launch:
November
29, 1961, Cape Canaveral, FL
Landing: n/a
Mission Highlights:
11/29/61, 3 hours and 22min after launch. The
capsule was spotted by a P5M search airplane at an altitude of 5000 ft. Ships
Stormes and Compton were contacted and they moved into position from a distance
of 30 miles away. The "Stormes" arrived in the area 1 hour and 15
minutes after landing and hauled the capsule aboard via its lanyard, cracking
the onboard window.
Enos, the orbiting chimpanzee fared well. He
withstood a peak of 6.8g during booster-engine acceleration and 7.6g with the
rush of the sustainer engine.
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