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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Trivia quiz - answers
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:25:44 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.130042.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov> <C01FHu.Jsu@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Dec30.190747.29554@dcatlas.dot.gov>
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- In article <1992Dec30.190747.29554@dcatlas.dot.gov> joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) writes:
- >>>30. How many Saturn V's flew?
- >>> Thirteen - Apollos 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and Skylab
- >>If you really want to be picky, you can argue that the count was 12.6666...,
- >>since the Skylab 1 launcher was only the first two stages of a Saturn V.
- >
- >I vaguely remember some of the Mercury launches and many of the Gemini
- >launches...I thought Apollo VI never flew, due to a fire in the CM that
- >unfortunately killed 3. And, I don't remember an Apollo IV. Oh well...
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- Apollos 4 and 6 were both unmanned tests; Apollo 7 was the first manned
- mission (which did not use a Saturn V). This was the post-fire numbering.
-
- (The pre-fire numbering was somewhat confused, to put it politely. At the
- time of the fire, the booster people were calling the Grissom/White/Chaffee
- mission Apollo 4 (since three unmanned tests preceded it), and the astronauts
- were calling it Apollo 1. Its only official name was AS-204. Afterward,
- the crew's wishes were honored retroactively... which left the unmanned tests
- in limbo. It's not clear why the first post-fire test was Apollo 4. There
- never was a mission officially designated Apollo 2 or Apollo 3; proposals
- to retroactively rename the pre-fire tests were rejected.)
-
- Mercury used Redstone and Atlas boosters; Gemini used Titan.
- --
- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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