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- From: BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn)
- Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
- Subject: Re: Trivia quiz - answers
- Message-ID: <72670@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 20:42:12 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Dec29.130042.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov>
- <C01FHu.Jsu@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Dec30.190747.29554@dcatlas.dot.gov>
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- >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...
- >(I was born 11/59)
- >
- >-JTT
-
- There were no missions officially designated Apollo 1, 2 or 3.
-
- The Apollo 1 mission never took place. This flight was to be
- the first manned mission of an Apollo spacecraft and was
- scheduled for February, 1967. As with all space missions at
- the time, it had a technical designation until it achieved
- orbit, at which time it would get an official name.
- Apollo 1 was officially the Apollo-Saturn 204 mission (AS-204).
- A flash fire during a Countdown Demonstration Test on the
- launch pad destroyed the spacecraft and killed astronauts
- Grissom, White, and Chaffee on January 27, 1967.
-
- Apollo 4 flew unmanned. This was the maiden flight of the
- Saturn 5 (AS-501) and proved the risky 'all-up' principle. All
- stages of the Saturn 5 flew live on the maiden flight. This
- mission took place on November 9, 1967.
-
- Apollo 5 was an unmanned flight of the Lunar Module only.
- This mission was launched by the Saturn 1B on January 22, 1968.
- The Apollo 5 Lunar Module was launched by the same Saturn 1B
- which had been planned for the Apollo 204 mission.
-
- Apollo 6 was the second unmanned test flight of the Saturn 5,
- (AS-502) launched on April 6, 1968. This was less successful
- than Apollo 4, with two engines out on the S-II second stage
- and the failure of the S-IVB third stage to re-ignite in
- orbit.
-
- Apollo 7 was the first manned flight of Apollo, launched by
- Saturn 1B (AS-205, I think) in October, 1968.
-
- Apollo 8 was the first manned flight of the Saturn 5 (AS-503),
- launched in December, 1968.
-
- Apollo 11, the first manned landing on the moon, was launched
- on the sixth Saturn 5 (AS-506). Before Armstrong and Aldrin
- left the moon, they left behind a crew patch for what would
- have been Apollo 1.
-
- -Brian
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