Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site astrovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!astrovax!nels From: nels@astrovax.UUCP (Nels Anderson) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Apollo 2-6 Message-ID: <411@astrovax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 00:57:13 EDT Article-I.D.: astrovax.411 Posted: Mon Aug 6 00:57:13 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Aug-84 07:00:54 EDT References: <616@sri-arpa.UUCP> <4178@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics Lines: 16 According to "Rockets, Missiles and Men in Space" by Willy Ley, there were three unmanned flights with Apollo hardware before the fire, beginning in February 1966. At the time they were designated, in order of launching, AS-201, AS-203 and AS-202. During all three, Apollo command and service modules (CSMs) were launched by a Saturn IB. Two of the flights were orbital shots; the other was suborbital. The next flight was to have been the ill-fated Apollo 1 (AS-204). After the fire, AS-201, 203 and 202 became Apollos 1, 3 and 2, respectively. In October 1967 the first Saturn V sent a CSM into a highly elliptical orbit and then rammed it back to earth at lunar return speed. This flight was called Apollo 4 (AS-501). Apollo 5 was an unmanned test of the lunar module (no CSM) in earth orbit using a Saturn IB and Apollo 6 (AS-502) was another Saturn V shot like Apollo 4. Nels Anderson Princeton Astrophysics