Little Joe II  -  NASA Reports Tom Beach collected several of these in the late 1970's and 1980's. They were extremely valauble in creating the Scale Data for American Spacemodeling, documenting all five Litte Joe-II's which flew. There are several NASA Little Joe-II reports and related files on the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS). To look for newly added files, or research other NASA reports use this link: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp Below are links and info on several reports, and some GIF's extracted from the PDF files. Page numbers listed are for the PDF's, not the orginal report page numbers.

Navigation links for this page: QTV A-001 A-002 A-003 A-004 Final Report (Little Joe-II) LES - Launch Escape Subsystem Motor Development Program (Algols) PA-1 - Pad Abort 1 Program Plan Little Joe II Launch Vehicle Integration Report (Apollo Spacecraft) Aerodynamic Characteristics - Early concepts and models Other Joes - Proposed Variants Lunar Module Boosted Little Joe II concepts Wind Tunnel Test Data

QTV Flight Report -Vehicle 12-50-1  Sep 27, 1963   #19790076764 138 page PDF File (6.4 MB)   Back to top

Cover Page 23 Page 68 Page 88 Page 100 Page 101

A-001 / BP-12 Post-Launch Report for Apollo Mission A-001 (BP-12) May 28, 1964 MSC-R-A-64-1 #1979076675 309 page PDF File (68.1 MB) Back to top

Cover Page 26 Page 31

BP-12 (A-001) Apollo spacecraft description manual high dynamic pressure abort (using Little Joe II)   July 1, 1963     #1973065740   91 page PDF File (4.3 MB)     Back to top

Cover Page 64 Page 11 Page 15

A-002 / BP-23 Monthly Progress Report Little Joe II Test Launch Vehicle Report No. 21 Dec 16, 1964 #19780070078 35 page PDF File (1.3 MB) Back to top

Cover Page 34

A-003 / BP-22 Program apollo flight mission directive Apollo mission A-003, BP-22 WORKING-PAPER-1145A Apr 16, 1965   #19790078425 106 page PDF File (2.7 MB)     Back to top

Cover Page 21 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 46

BP-22 (A-003) Project Apollo Flight Test Report Boiletplate 22 NAS9-150 #1969076138 325 page PDF File (62.8 MB) Back to top

Cover Page 36

A-004 / SC-002 Post Launch Report for A-004 Apr 15, 1966 MSC-A-R-66-3  #19740073286 382 page PDF File (25 MB)

Cover Page 32 Page 34

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SC-002 (A-004) Spacecraft 002 Little Joe II Launch Vehicle Performance and Interface Specification Oct 22, 1965  #1979076767 89 page PDF File (3.5 MB) Back to top

Cover Page 39 Page 45

A-004 SI D 64-2174 Vehicle Test Plan Apollo A-004 Spacecraft 002 January 29, 1965  #1979077944 160 page PDF File (7.1 MB) Back to top

Cover Page 15 Page 18 Page 23 Page 32 Page 89

Little Joe II test launch vehicle NASA Project Apollo. Volume 2 Technical Summary Final Report May 1, 1966 #19690090094 256 page PDF File (215 MB)

Page 29: A-003 Break-up Page 43: Why A-003 rolled

Page 45 (A-003 flight plots) Page 59: 1/33.3 scale Wind Tunnel model Page 70 Page 71 Page 82 Page 87 Page 103 Page 133 Page 175 Page 176 Page 184 Page 198 Page 232: QTV Main Body crash site Back to top Page 233 Page 235:   Pad Inspection after launch Page 236

LES (Launch Escape Subsystem) Apollo experience report: Launch escape propulsion subsystem NASA TN D-7083 Mar 1, 1973 #1973010175 29 page PDF File (1.4 MB) Back to top

Page 25 Page 7

Little Joe II Motor Development Program Final Report ALGOL ROCKET ENGINE AND MOTOR GROUND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT FOR LITTLE JOE II Oct 25, 1969 Report 0667-01F #1966017472 143 page PDF File (70.9 MB) Back to top

Cover Page 50-51: Canted Algol Nozzle Page 52: Straight Algol Nozzle

PA-1 Postlaunch memorandum report for Apollo Pad Abort 1 Nov 13, 1963 #19790076960 206 page PDF File (53.2MB)   Back to top

Cover Page 19

Program Plan Little Joe II NASA Project Apollo test launch vehicle,Little Joe II (Early planning for Little Joe-II) June, 1962 #1979077213 36 page PDF File (1.3 MB) Back to top

Cover Page 5 Page 36

Apollo Spacecraft Launch Vehicle Integration Report (Little Joe and Saturn vehicles) Jan 30, 1962 #1979076759 123 page PDF File (4.7 MB) Back to top

Cover Page 13

Aerodynamic Characteristics For several configurations of the Little Joe-II Launch Vehicle May, 1968 NASA TN-D-4439 #1968013484 227 page PDF File (11.8 MB) Cover   Back to top

Page 34 Page 36 Page 40 Page 38

Other Little Joe-II's Two issues of Flight International Magazine had articles on proposed variants of the Little Joe-II. The first (Dec 2, 1965) was for adding a Minuteman Missile as upper stages to put paylaods in orbit. The page at right was obtained from this web page, second from top. A later article, January 26 1966 (found on this page) covered many of the other proposals. The article does not specifically mention some of the proposals shown in four photos of models, which seem to be sub-orbital. The first seems to be for a very large payload launching version. The second shows a Lunar Module boost version. There is more on that below this page. The third model might be of one to carry a functional Service Module, to do a Service Module Abort test. The fourth model is for testing the X-20/Dyna-Soar abort capabilities during boost. Below, found on the web, a mock-up cut-away Service Module held up on a cylindrical section at the height necessary to clear the nozzle. Had a Little Joe-II been flown with a live SM, it would have needed an adapter ring tall enough to clear the SM nozzle, as seen with this one. Back to top

December 2, 1965 LittleJoe-II / Minuteman (Dec 65) LittleJoe-II / Minuteman (Jan 66) January 26, 1966 - article page 1    Large Payload       LEM Test Booster Live SM Test (?)      X-20 Abort Booster        January 26, 1966 - article page 2 Large Payload Version 4-stage Minuteman Version

Little Joe-II Launched Lunar Module (Hammerhead) Static longitudinal aerodynamic characteristics of a hammerhead-shape Little Joe II - Lunar Module model at Mach 0.30 to 1.20 Oct 1, 1967 #19670029918 156 page PDF File ( 6.2 MB) Back to top

Cover Here and below, concepts for sub-orbital tests of the Lunar Module using a Little Joe-II booster.   Cancelled Feb., 1964 Page 26

Little Joe-II Launched Lunar Module (Hammerhead) From "Static Stability and Control Characteristics of a 0.030-Scale Model of a Little Joe II-LEM Space Vehicle at Mach 1.57 TO 4.63," NASA TM X-1139 Langley Research Center September 1965 #19720065120 A PDF file is not available, see this page:

NASA Report Drawings via Aerospace Project Review Wind Tunnel Model was 3% scale, or 1/33.333 scale

Little Joe-II Boosted Lunar Module Lunar logistic system. Volume 7: Testing aspects (Using Little Joe II to test unmanned lunar logistic landing system on Earth) NASA-TM-74949 March 15, 1963 #967029918 156 Page PDF File (1.1 MB) Back to top

Cover Page 16 Page 36

Wind Tunnel Test Data of an .03 scale Little Joe II Generla Dynamics Convair GDC-63-025 Feb 19, 1963   #1979076585 146 page PDF File (21.2 MB) Back to top

Cover Lots of graphs, no drawings.

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