Heh! Love it...
The comments are shining examples of the best of our youth too:
11 Mar, 14 Apr, & 22 Jul of 1959. In-house by Wallops using 'boilerplate' capsules to evaluate various configurations for the LES exhaust nozzles & thrust profiles, IIRC.Beach Abort (9 May, 1960) was the first flight of a production Mercury.