Little Joe II is a big rocket
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Ham the Astrochimp is buried near an outdoor rocket park at the New Mexico Museum of Space History. This nearly 90-foot beast named Little Joe II was powered by up to nine rocket motors with a combined thrust of 860,000 pounds. It was used to test the Apollo launch escape system.
April 20, 2012 10:42 AM PDT
Photo by: Amanda Kooser/CNET
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