what was Apollo 1's mission to be?

If Apollo 1 had been successful, what was the goal of the mission? You
always hear of the fire, but I've never heard what the plan was.

Was threre Apollo 2 & 3? My videos only tell of 4,5 & 6 being
unmanned tests of the Saturn V.

Apollo 1's mission was to just test the Apollo spacecraft in Earth
orbit, Apollo 7 took over Apollo 1's mission.


PowerPost2000 wrote:
If Apollo 1 had been successful, what was the goal of the mission? You
always hear of the fire, but I've never heard what the plan was.

Was threre Apollo 2 & 3? My videos only tell of 4,5 & 6 being
unmanned tests of the Saturn V.

There were many apollo missions, most of which had no crew, but no
Apollo 2 or 3.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo.html



wrote:
Apollo 1's mission was to just test the Apollo spacecraft in Earth
orbit, Apollo 7 took over Apollo 1's mission.


PowerPost2000 wrote:
If Apollo 1 had been successful, what was the goal of the mission? You
always hear of the fire, but I've never heard what the plan was.

Was threre Apollo 2 & 3? My videos only tell of 4,5 & 6 being
unmanned tests of the Saturn V.

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:58:07 GMT, PowerPost2000 wrote:

If Apollo 1 had been successful, what was the goal of the mission? You
always hear of the fire, but I've never heard what the plan was.

Essentially the same as the later Apollo 7.

Was threre Apollo 2 & 3? My videos only tell of 4,5 & 6 being
unmanned tests of the Saturn V.

NASA was thinking of Grissom's mission (AS-204) as Apollo 4 (with
unmanned AS-201 to 203 presumably being Apollo 1-3), but Grissom
wanted it called Apollo 1 and wouldn't take 'no' for an answer. After
the Fire, NASA acquiesced and just skipped 2 and 3 (since there were
three, not two unmanned Saturn-Apollo flights already and no way to
retroactively designate them and make any sense) and went straight on
to 4.

Apollo 5 was the unmanned flight of Lunar Module 1 on a Saturn 1B (the
same booster Grissom's crew was to ride.)

Brian

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There were many apollo missions, most of which had no crew, but no
Apollo 2 or 3.

Umm, most of which had no crew? I think you're missing something in your
first sentence or something.



http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo.html



wrote:
Apollo 1's mission was to just test the Apollo spacecraft in Earth
orbit, Apollo 7 took over Apollo 1's mission.


PowerPost2000 wrote:
If Apollo 1 had been successful, what was the goal of the mission? You
always hear of the fire, but I've never heard what the plan was.

Was threre Apollo 2 & 3? My videos only tell of 4,5 & 6 being
unmanned tests of the Saturn V.

PowerPost2000 wrote:

If Apollo 1 had been successful, what was the goal of the mission? You
always hear of the fire, but I've never heard what the plan was.

Was threre Apollo 2 & 3? My videos only tell of 4,5 & 6 being
unmanned tests of the Saturn V.



Checking out the Apollo CSM combiation in Earth orbit the way that
Apollo 7 did.

Pat

http://www.astronautix.com/articles/youelled.htm

Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
wrote in message
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There were many apollo missions, most of which had no crew, but no
Apollo 2 or 3.

Umm, most of which had no crew? I think you're missing something in your
first sentence or something.



http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo.html



wrote:
Apollo 1's mission was to just test the Apollo spacecraft in Earth
orbit, Apollo 7 took over Apollo 1's mission.


PowerPost2000 wrote:
If Apollo 1 had been successful, what was the goal of the mission? You
always hear of the fire, but I've never heard what the plan was.

Was threre Apollo 2 & 3? My videos only tell of 4,5 & 6 being
unmanned tests of the Saturn V.


Greg,

Have a look at the NASA web page he mentioned because I thought it was
a strange statement as well. It could be considered accurate IF you
count all the early Saturn I and IB test flights that were carrying
Apollo boilerplates (rather than water or sand). The page listed:

Apollo/Saturn Uncrewed Earth Orbiting Missions
1. SA-5
Launched 29 January 1964
First Block II Saturn launch
SA-6
Launched 28 May 1964
First Apollo boilerplate model
SA-7
Launched 18 September 1964
Apollo boilerplate model
SA-9/Pegasus 1
Launched 16 February 1965
Apollo boilerplate model and micrometeoroid satellite
SA-8/Pegasus 2
Launched 25 May 1965
Apollo boilerplate model and micrometeoroid satellite
SA-10/Pegasus 3
Launched 30 July 1965
Apollo boilerplate model and micrometeoroid satellite
AS-203
Launched 5 July 1966
First S-IVB stage orbital mission
Apollo 4
Launched 9 November 1967
First all-up launch of Saturn V
Apollo 5
Launched 22 January 1968
First test of Lunar Module in space
Apollo 6
Launched 4 April 1968
Final uncrewed Apollo test flight
Apollo/Saturn Uncrewed Suborbital Flights
SA-1
Launched 27 October 1961
First flight of Saturn 1
SA-2
Launched 25 April 1962
Project High Water I
SA-3
Launched 16 November 1962
Project High Water II
SA-4
Launched 28 March 1963
Engine-out capability test
AS-201
Launched 26 February 1966
First flight of Saturn 1B
AS-202
Launched 25 August 1966
Apollo development flight

I guess it depends on whether or not you count the boilerplate
missions.

Blue skies and God speed the crew of the Saturday's STS mission . . .

John

I count 12 missions with a crew, including Apollo and 16 without.


Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
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There were many apollo missions, most of which had no crew, but no
Apollo 2 or 3.

Umm, most of which had no crew? I think you're missing something in your
first sentence or something.



http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo.html



wrote:
Apollo 1's mission was to just test the Apollo spacecraft in Earth
orbit, Apollo 7 took over Apollo 1's mission.


PowerPost2000 wrote:
If Apollo 1 had been successful, what was the goal of the mission? You
always hear of the fire, but I've never heard what the plan was.

Was threre Apollo 2 & 3? My videos only tell of 4,5 & 6 being
unmanned tests of the Saturn V.

It's like the Mercury program where there were many more missions
without a crew because you have to include, in the Mercury program, all
of the Little and Big Joe rocket tests.

A program cannot just start without testing the rocket and spacecraft,
the only exception to this may be the Shuttle, there have been no
crewless Shuttle missions in space.



wrote:
I count 12 missions with a crew, including Apollo and 16 without.


Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
wrote in message
ups.com...
There were many apollo missions, most of which had no crew, but no
Apollo 2 or 3.

Umm, most of which had no crew? I think you're missing something in your
first sentence or something.



http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo.html



wrote:
Apollo 1's mission was to just test the Apollo spacecraft in Earth
orbit, Apollo 7 took over Apollo 1's mission.


PowerPost2000 wrote:
If Apollo 1 had been successful, what was the goal of the mission? You
always hear of the fire, but I've never heard what the plan was.

Was threre Apollo 2 & 3? My videos only tell of 4,5 & 6 being
unmanned tests of the Saturn V.