A-002
frame|Little Joe II, LC 36, White Sands, NM (NASA) A-002 was the third abort test of the Apollo spacecraft.
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- Abort test
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- 7 minutes, 23.4 seconds
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frame|Little Joe II, LC 36, White Sands, NM (NASA) A-002 was the third abort test of the Apollo spacecraft.
==Objectives== Mission A-002 was the third in the series of abort tests to demonstrate that the launch system would perform satisfactorily under selected critical abort conditions. The main objective of this mission was to demonstrate the abort capability of the launch escape vehicle in the maximum dynamic pressure region of the Saturn trajectory with conditions approximating the altitude limit at which the Saturn emergency detection system would signal an abort.