Apollo Mission 2 & 3 ?

In article .com,
wrote:
Apollo 1, was the fire, (This we all know). Apollo 4, was the first
full up stack Saturn V w/Apollo CM...
Can anyone tell me what happened to the Apollo 2 & 3 missions.?

Officially, they never existed. Apollo numbering was confused.

Many people were calling AS-204 (the mission whose preparations ended with
the fire) Apollo 4, not Apollo 1, because there were three unmanned tests
preceding it... and you can find contemporary technical papers which call
those tests Apollo 1, 2, and 3. The crew wanted the first manned flight
to be Apollo 1. There had been no official decision; AS-204 was the only
official name that flight had.

The crew's wishes were honored posthumously, but then somehow the next
unmanned test was *officially* named Apollo 4. It was impossible to
retroactively give the earlier unmanned tests such official names, since
Apollo 1 was now taken, so the final decision was that no retroactive
renaming would be done. The earlier tests remain AS-201, AS-202, and
AS-203, and officially there never was an Apollo 2 or Apollo 3.
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