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Topic: Memo: Apollo 1 launch escape system disposition
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dtemple
Member Posts: 730
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 03-30-2013 11:08 PM
   
A friend of mine who worked for GE and was assigned to Project Apollo at MSC-Houston in the '60s gave to me a notebook full of NAA-Rockwell memos from the 1967-68 time frame. Much of it deals with electromagnetic interference anomalies during tests of various spacecraft (i.e., BP-14, LTA-8, S/C 101, etc). However, one interesting memo was in regard to LES-012, the launch escape system for the Apollo 1 spacecraft (S/C 012). It authorized its refurbishment and reallocation to the "Block II CSM program." Does anyone know what the final disposition was for this particular LES? To my knowledge, it was never flown. I always suspected it was stored with the Apollo 1 CM components at Langley or was scrapped. On a related note, I seem to recall SM-012 was stored at NAA-Downey until the early '70s at which point it was scrapped. |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4494
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-31-2013 07:27 AM
NASA end item disposition reporting as of 1978 reflects the S/C 012 LES at KSC |
Ross
Member Posts: 479
From: Australia
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 04-01-2013 07:51 AM
If NASA went to the expense of refurbishing it, I wonder why it was not reused. | |
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