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Little Joe II Rocket Named for Dice TermWHITE SANDS, N.M. (UPI)—The Little Joe II rocket fired Wednesday in the first test o£ the Apollo moonshot program got its name from a gambling term.Officials said the Little Joe II name for the 30-foot-long solid-fuel rocket referred to crap-shooting term of “Little Joe/’ meaning a four.The original of the rocket, Little Joe 1, had four engines which were fired in sequence of two and two— the hard way,¥
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European Stars and Stripes
Darmstadt, Hesse, DE
Fri, Aug 30, 1963
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