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Topic: Apollo 1 Mission Profile
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Rodina
Member Posts: 836
From: Lafayette, CA
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 09-04-2004 08:21 AM
  
One little hole in my knowledge is this: when was the Apollo 1 flight supposed to launch and what was its mission profile? Obviously, the Apollo 1 was just a pad test, but they were prepping for a flight. I assume it was, more or less, Apollo 7's profile. |
Tom
Member Posts: 1610
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 09-04-2004 11:26 AM
Apollo 1 was scheduled for launch around noon time on February 21, 1967.
It was to be an "open end" type mission that was to last about 14 days.
Grissom and crew planned on surpassing the record of Borman and Lovell on Gemini 7 by about 15 minutes.
During the 2 week flight they were to give the untried SPS engine a work out.
There is an interesting chapter on the proposed flight of Apollo 1 in David Shaylers book "Apollo The Lost and Forgotten Missions".
Tom[This message has been edited by Tom (edited September 04, 2004).] |
dtemple
Member Posts: 730
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 09-04-2004 12:34 PM
The Apollo 1 flight plan was similar to that of Apollo 7, but it lacked the rendezvous with the SIV-B. It was to have flown in formation with it, though. Apollo 2 had the rendezvous with the SIV-B on its schedule. Once the Apollo 2 mission was canceled in Nov. 1966, I don't know if the rendezvous was inserted into Apollo 1's flight plan or not. I believe Apollo 7 was sort of a composite of the Apollo 1 and Apollo 2 flight plans. However, the frog was not on the Apollo 7 flight. YES - a frog. Read Mike Collins account of his time as backup LMP for Apollo 2 in "Carrying the Fire." |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1051
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 09-04-2004 11:15 PM
and after apollo 1 and 2 (Mc divitt,Scott,Schweickart)? apollo 3 first manned flight of lunar module in earth orbit (Borman ,Collins, Anders),apollo 4 first manned flight around the moon (Schirra,Eisle,Chunningham),apollo 5 test of the lunar module in earth high orbit (Stafford,Young,Cernan),apollo 6 first landing on the moon (Armstrong,Lovell,Aldrin).Is correct? |
Tom
Member Posts: 1610
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 09-05-2004 12:09 AM
After Apollo 2 was cancelled in November 1966 the Apollo roster looked like this:Apollo 1: Grissom, White, Chaffee
Back-up: Schirra, Eisele, Cunningham Apollo 2: McDivitt, Scott, Schweickart
BU: Stafford, Young, Cernan Apollo 3: Borman, Collins, Anders
BU: Conrad, Gordon, Williams The plan was for the back-up crew to skip 2 missions and then fly the third. If that was the case, Schirra's crew would have flown Apollo 4. I've read several times that wasn't too likely. Apollo 4 would have probably been similar to an Apollo 10 type flight flying both the CSM and LM in lunar orbit. With 2 rookies assigned to his crew, most experts believe NASA would have chosen a more experienced crew.
One of the scenarios listed Grissom, Scott, and McDivitt as the Apollo 4 back-up crew, then moving on to fly Apollo 7 on the first lunar landing. As far as which astronauts would have been chosen to fly Apollo 4, is anyones guess. [This message has been edited by Tom (edited September 05, 2004).] |
Captain Apollo
Member Posts: 260
From: UK
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 09-05-2004 07:59 AM
What did the LM pilot do on missions where there wasn't a LM? |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1051
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 09-05-2004 05:29 PM
And apollo 5 and 6 ? another LM test in lumar orbit ? |
Moonwalker1954
Member Posts: 246
From: Montreal, Canada
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted 09-08-2004 12:18 AM
It's interresting to read all these speculations about the first Apollo missions had Apollo 1 fire not happened but we have to keep in mind that the lunar module was not ready to fly until early 1969 and we're talking about missions that would have flown in '67 and '68!
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carmelo
Member Posts: 1051
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 09-08-2004 10:48 PM
So,if Apollo 1 fire not happened ,and had been launched February 21,1967,and the lunar module had not been ready until early 1969,WOULD HAVE MADE the successive missions apollo in 1967 and 1968? would have made Apollo 2,Apollo 3,4,5 ecc? |
Rusty B
Member Posts: 239
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 10-04-2004 03:32 PM
If Apollo 1 had flown, what was the scheduled recovery carrier? I sure recovery forces must have been reserved for Apollo 1, since planning for a spacecraft recovery must have been done months in advance between NASA and the U.S. Navy.The Wiki Free online encyclopedia has an article that lists all of the manned and unmanned U.S. capsule splashdowns and their recovery carrier:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splashdown Rusty Barton |
Tom
Member Posts: 1610
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 10-04-2004 09:25 PM
I believe the USS Essex was scheduled to recover Apollo 1. | |
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