🚀 go-pugleaf

>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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Brian S. Thorn                                    "If ignorance is bliss,
BrianT@cup.portal.com                               this must be heaven."
                                                -Diane Chambers, "Cheers"
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