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! align=center width=60px |Launch<br/>rocket
! align=center width=60px |Launch<br/>rocket
! align=center width=183px|Crew
! align=center width=183px|Crew
! align=center width=400px|Mission
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| AS-201
| AS-201
| Feb. 26, 1966
| Feb. 26, 1966
| Saturn IB
| Saturn 1B
| Unmanned
| Unmanned
| Suborbital CSM flight
| 36 minute suborbital test
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|-
| AS-203
| AS-203
| July 5, 1966
| July 5, 1966
| Saturn IB
| Saturn 1B
| Unmanned
| Unmanned
| Test liquid hydrogen behavior in Earth orbit
| 88 minute test at Earth orbital altitude
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|-
| AS-202
| AS-202
| Aug. 25, 1966
| Aug. 25, 1966
| Saturn IB
| Saturn 1B
| Unmanned
| Unmanned
| Suborbital CSM flight
| 93 minute test at Earth orbital altitude
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|-
| AS-204<br/>(Apollo 1)
| AS-204<br/>(Apollo 1)
| None
| None
| Saturn IB
| Saturn 1B
| Virgil Grissom, Edward White,<br/>Roger Chaffee
| Virgil Grissom, Edward White,<br/>Roger Chaffee
| Block I CSM Earth orbital flight (up to 14 days)
| Fire destroyed the Command Module and killed the 3 crew members during a launch pad test.
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| Apollo 4
| Apollo 4
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| Extended lunar landing ([[Taurus-Littrow (lunar valley)|Taurus-Littrow]])
| Extended lunar landing ([[Taurus-Littrow (lunar valley)|Taurus-Littrow]])
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Cabin fire broke out in pure oxygen atmosphere during launch rehearsal test on 27 January 1967, killing all three crewmen and destroying the CM before planned February 21 launch.

Revision as of 22:46, 21 June 2011

Mission
Identifier
Launch
date
Launch
rocket
Crew Mission
AS-201 Feb. 26, 1966 Saturn 1B Unmanned 36 minute suborbital test
AS-203 July 5, 1966 Saturn 1B Unmanned 88 minute test at Earth orbital altitude
AS-202 Aug. 25, 1966 Saturn 1B Unmanned 93 minute test at Earth orbital altitude
AS-204
(Apollo 1)
None Saturn 1B Virgil Grissom, Edward White,
Roger Chaffee
Fire destroyed the Command Module and killed the 3 crew members during a launch pad test.
Apollo 4 Nov. 9, 1967 Saturn V Unmanned First Saturn V / CSM flight in Earth orbit
Apollo 5 Jan. 22, 1968 Saturn IB Unmanned First Lunar Module flight in Earth orbit
Apollo 6 Apr. 4, 1968 Saturn V Unmanned CSM test: trans-lunar injection with direct abort to high-speed re-entry
Apollo 7 Oct. 11, 1968 Saturn IB Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele,
Walter Cunningham
Block II CSM Earth orbital test
Apollo 8 Dec. 21, 1968 Saturn V Frank Borman, Jim Lovell,
William Anders
Lunar orbit (CSM only)
Apollo 9 Mar. 3, 1969 Saturn V James McDivitt, David Scott,
Russell Schweickart
Earth orbit CSM / LM test
Apollo 10 May 18, 1969 Saturn V Thomas Stafford, John Young,
Eugene Cernan
Rehearsal for lunar landing
Apollo 11 July 16, 1969 Saturn V Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin,
Michael Collins
First lunar landing
Apollo 12 Nov. 14, 1969 Saturn V Charles Conrad, Alan Bean,
Richard Gordon
Precision lunar landing (Ocean of Storms)
Apollo 13 Apr. 11, 1970 Saturn V Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert,
Fred Haise
Lunar landing (Fra Mauro)
Apollo 14 Jan. 31, 1971 Saturn V Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa,
Edgar Mitchell
Lunar landing (Fra Mauro)
Apollo 15 July 26, 1971 Saturn V David Scott, Alfred Worden,
James Irwin
Extended lunar landing (Hadley-Apennine)
Apollo 16 Apr. 16, 1972 Saturn V John Young, Ken Mattingly,
Charles Duke
Extended lunar landing (Descartes Highlands)
Apollo 17 Dec. 7, 1972 Saturn V Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans,
Harrison Schmitt
Extended lunar landing (Taurus-Littrow)