Mercury Jupiter 2 Spacecraft: (no serial number) Launch Vehicle: Jupiter MJ-2 Scheduled Launch: 1 Feb 1960 Last Scheduled: 1 Jul 1959 Prime Crew	⇑ Mission List ⇑ Designation: Mercury J S(U)-2 Description: 1st Mercury Jupiter unmanned suborbital
	not assigned Backup Crew not assigned

In the January 1959 Mercury program plan, flights of the capsule on a Jupiter IRBM were to take place in addition to flights atop the Redstone and Atlas boosters. The second Mercury-Jupiter flight was planned as a maximum dynamic pressure test to qualify a production Mercury capsule with a chimpanzee aboard. A human astronaut was considered briefly before the Mercury-Jupiter flights were cancelled in July 1959 on cost grounds. The program insignia shown above is post factum. References: Encyclopedia Astronautica. Wikipedia.

M S Carpenter L G Cooper J H Glenn V I Grissom W M Schirra A B Shepard D K Slayton