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Topic: Apollo 7 spacecraft on Launch Complex 34
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LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-19-2018 12:09 AM
  
I wonder if the Apollo 7 crew knew they launched with the Apollo 1 SLA, modified for use with their spacecraft. |
LM-12
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posted 08-02-2019 11:01 AM
It looks to me like the boilerplate spacecraft can also be seen on the Saturn IB in this Apollo 7 pad photo. It is similar to the boilerplate photo in the first post. |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
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posted 08-03-2019 09:31 AM
From the Apollo 7 Mission Report regarding launch preparations: The two propulsion stages and the instrument unit of the Saturn IB launch vehicle were erected at Complex 34 in April ... The spacecraft was mated to the launch vehicle at the pad in August. The report does not give any details about all the stacking and de-stacking of the various vehicle configurations that went on at Pad 34 between those two dates. |
LM-12
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posted 11-12-2019 01:59 PM
This Apollo Saturn 205 Engineering Report film from the Marshall Space Flight Center has some really nice footage of the Apollo 7 launch.
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LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
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posted 08-13-2022 08:29 PM
This document describes the Apollo 7 Oxidizer Spill on April 21, 1968. It identifies the dummy spacecraft atop the Apollo 7 (SA-205) launch vehicle as BP-30. But that conflicts with the Apollo 8 chronology dates for BP-30 that Ed posted back on page 1. |
dtemple
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From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 09-10-2022 08:21 PM
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Originally posted by moorouge:
...BP-30 was used for swing arm tests and in March 1975 was transferred to the Fort Worth Museum of Transportation.
I saw BP-25 at the Pate Museum of Transportation (was actually outside Ft. Worth - Cresson, TX) on multiple occasions in the 1990s, but never BP-30. BP-30 along with SM-015 is displayed with the Saturn V at the KSC Saturn V Center. The combo was to be used as the payload for another unmanned Saturn V test had one been required. Incidentally, the Pate Museum was closed many years ago. I don't know where BP-25 went after that, but every display is gone from the former museum. There was also present a Gemini boilerplate as well as many aircraft; vintage cars were displayed inside a building, too. |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
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posted 09-24-2022 08:35 PM
Here is an overhead shot of the Apollo 7 vehicle at Pad 34. One of the RCS thruster quads can be seen. There was an RCS static fire test at around T-20 minutes in the launch countdown. |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
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posted 03-11-2024 02:28 PM
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Originally posted by LM-12:
This Apollo Saturn 205 Engineering Report film...
The Apollo 7 rendezvous with the S-IVB stage over Cape Canaveral was filmed from the ground with a ROTI (Recording Optical Tracking Instrument) camera in Melbourne Beach. I think that is what we see starting at 13:16 in the film. |
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