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Apollo 6 launch TV footage

Low quality TV footage of the troubled, second Saturn V test flight. Two segments shown: 1) Liftoff through interstage separation 2) From T+7:35 when the los...

Apollo 6 - Wikipedia

Second test flight of the Apollo Saturn V rocket Apollo 6 (April 4, 1968), also known as AS-502, was the third and final uncrewed flight in the United States' Apollo Program, and the second test of the Saturn V launch vehicle. It qualified the Saturn V to be used on …

Apollo 6

Overview

Destination: Elliptical Orbit
Mission: Human Exploration

Elliptical Orbit Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Apollo 6 was intended to send a Command and Service Module (CSM) plus a Lunar Module Test Article (LTA), a simulated Lunar Module (LM) with mounted structural vibration sensors, into a translunar trajectory. However, the Moon would not be in position for a translunar flight, and the Service Module engine would be fired about five minutes later to slow the craft, dropping its apogee to 11,989 nautical miles (22,204 km) and causing the CSM to return to Earth, simulating a "direct-return" abort. On the return leg, the engine would fire once more to accelerate the craft to simulate the nominal lunar return trajectory with a re-entry angle of -6.5 degrees and velocity of 36,500 feet per second (11,100 m/s). The entire mission would last about 10 hours.

Saturn V

Family:
Configuration: V

The Saturn V was a human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973. Most notably, the Saturn V took the Apollo program to the Moon. It still remains the world's tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and is the only launch vehicle to take humans beyond LEO.

Specifications

Stages
3
Length
110.6 m
Diameter
10.1 m
Fairing Diameter
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Launch Mass
2970.0 T
Thrust
35100.0 kN

Family

Name
Saturn V
Family
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Variant
V
Alias
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Full Name
Saturn V

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
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Low Earth Orbit
140000.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Direct Geostationary
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Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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Apollo CSM-020

In-active Human Rated Unmanned Crew Capacity: 3 Payload Capacity: 1050 kg

Destination: Highly Elliptical Earth Orbit

Serial Number: CSM-020

CSM-020 was an Apollo Command & Service Module used in the Apollo 6 mission.

Apollo Command/Service Module Details

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

(NASA)

Acting Administrator: James Free Founded: 1958 Successes: 121 Failures: 20 Pending: 6

Agency Type:

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.

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Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Launch Complex 39A

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