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AS-201
Also known as SA-201, Apollo 1A
AS-201 (Also known as SA-201, Apollo 1-A, or Apollo 1 prior to the 1967 pad fire, flown February 26, 1966, was the first uncrewed test flight of an entire production Block I Apollo command and service module and the Saturn IB launch vehicle. The spacecraft consisted of the second Block I command module and the first Block I service module. The suborbital flight was a partially successful demonstration of the service propulsion system and the reaction control systems of both modules, and successfully demonstrated the capability of the command module's heat shield to survive re-entry from low Ea
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- AS-201
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- Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn IB launch vehicle
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- Suborbital test flight
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- NASA
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- 37 minutes, 19.7 seconds
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- Apollo CSM-009
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- North American Aviation
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- Saturn IB SA-201
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- Cape Kennedy LC-34
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- Vehicle configuration
- Spacecraft
- Launch vehicle
- Objectives
- Preparation for flight
- Flight
- Launch attempt
- Flight
- Problems
- Capsule location
- See also
- References
- External links
AS-201 (Also known as SA-201, Apollo 1-A, or Apollo 1 prior to the 1967 pad fire, flown February 26, 1966, was the first uncrewed test flight of an entire production Block I Apollo command and service module and the Saturn IB launch vehicle. The spacecraft consisted of the second Block I command module and the first Block I service module. The suborbital flight was a partially successful demonstration of the service propulsion system and the reaction control systems of both modules, and successfully demonstrated the capability of the command module's heat shield to survive re-entry from low Earth orbit.
==Vehicle configuration==
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