Saturn IB | Apollo 1 (Failure before launch)

Saturn IB | Apollo 1 (Failure before launch)

Launch Complex 34
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

T?

--

Days

:

--

Hours

:

--

Mins

:

--

Secs

Date Loading...
Trajectory

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Website

Apollo 1

Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was the first crewed mission of the United States Apollo program, the undertaking to land the first man on the Moon. It was planned to launch on February 21, 1967, as the first low Earth orbital test of the Apollo command and service module. The mission never flew; a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 on January 27 killed all three crew members—Command Pilot Gus Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee—and destroyed the command module (CM). The name Apollo 1, chosen by the crew, was made official by NASA in their honor after the fire.

info More Information

Apollo CSM-012


Serial CSM-012

Launch Crew Count 3

Status Destroyed

Landing Time 1967-01-27T23:31:19+0000


Wiki

Crew

Ed White

Senior Pilot

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1930-11-14

Deceased 1967-01-27

Status Lost In Training

Type Government


Gus Grissom

Command Pilot

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1926-04-03

Deceased 1967-01-27

Status Lost In Training

Type Government


Roger B. Chaffee

Pilot

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1935-02-15

Deceased 1967-01-27

Status Lost In Training

Type Government


Saturn IB


Height 43.20 Meters

Max Stages 2

Mass To GTO 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust 7100 kN

Diameter 6.61 Meters

Mass To LEO 21000 kg

Liftoff Mass 590 Tonnes


Launch Success 9

Consecutive Success 6

Maiden Flight 1966-02-26

Launch Failures 1


Wiki

Programs

Apollo

The Apollo program was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.

See More News