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The crew selected on March 21, 1966, for AS-204 consisted of Command Pilot Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, who named their mission Apollo 1. AS-205 was to be named Apollo 2, and AS-207/208 would be Apollo 3. [3] The AS-205 crew were Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham. However, AS-205 was later ...
The entire mission was to last about 10 hours. [1] [2] [3] The mission was intended to test the Saturn V launch vehicle's ability to send the entire Apollo spacecraft to the Moon—in particular, to test the stresses on the LM and the vibration modes of the entire Saturn V with near-full loads. [4]
The first crewed Apollo mission was thus Apollo 7. Simple "Apollo" numbers were never assigned to the first three uncrewed flights, although renaming AS-201, AS-202, and AS-203 as Apollo 1-A, Apollo 2 and Apollo 3, had been briefly considered. [6]
2 Mission cancellations (developmental) 3 References. 4 See also. Toggle the table of contents. List of NASA cancellations. ... [2] Mission cancellations (developmental)
Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...
Articles related to the additional Apollo program missions that were planned, but canceled. Pages in category "Canceled Apollo missions" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Canceled Apollo missions (9 P) C. Cancelled Space Shuttle missions (9 P) Cancelled space stations (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Cancelled space missions"
The Apollo Applications Program (AAP) was created as early as 1966 by NASA headquarters to develop science-based human spaceflight missions using hardware developed for the Apollo program. AAP was the ultimate development of a number of official and unofficial Apollo follow-on projects studied at various NASA labs. [ 1 ]