Date: 1951-04-01
Vehicle: Wake Island-I
Payload: Hope Cockpit
Destination: Earth Atmosphere
Result: Mission Failure
This mission can be considered succesful as both brave pilots returnred home with a perfect landing right nexct to Mission Control, but it failed to achieve any objectives as there was a fuel mixture mistake in the VAB.
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Hope II lifts off in an attempt to cross the Karman Line | Controlled descent for a targeted landing. | Very impressive landing after a failed mission. |