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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 ...
Apollo 6, the second test flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle, was intended to send a command and service module (CSM) plus a Lunar Test Article (LTA), a simulated lunar module (LM) with mounted structural vibration sensors, into a trans-lunar trajectory, with the boost from orbit to trans-lunar velocity powered by the Saturn V's third stage, the S-IVB.
Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]
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 ...
2 Mission cancellations (developmental) 3 References. 4 See also. ... [1] Lockheed Martin X-33 - 2001; HL-20 Personnel Launch System - 1993 [2] Mission cancellations ...
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 LESS would use fuel from the LM ascent stage tanks, so no extra fuel would be carried on the mission. Rather than the multiple redundant systems used elsewhere in the Apollo program, the LESS would be as simple as possible while still achieving its mission. All life support would come from the astronauts' space-suit backpacks.