Virtual Museum of Art | Virtual Museum of History | Virtual Public Library | Virtual Science Center | Virtual Museum of Natural History | Virtual War Museum
   You are in: Virtual Museum of Science >> Air and Space Museum >> Apollo V


Apollo V

January 22, 1968

Mission Objective: Verify operation of Lunar Module ascent and descent propulsion systems. Evaluate Lunar Module staging. Evaluate S-IVB instrument unit performance

Text and Scans listed below courtesy of NASA:
NASA Privacy Statement, Disclaimer, and Accessibility Certification

 

Apollo-5 (21)

Pad 37-B (8)
Saturn-1B AS-204 (4)
1st Lunar Module Launch

 

Milestones:

08/15/66 - S-1 Stage ondock at KSC
08/15/66 - S-1B Stage ondock at KSC
08/06/66 - S-IVB ondock at KSC
08/16/66 - S-IU ondock at KSC
04/11/67 - Launch Vehicle at Pad
11/19/67 - Spacecraft at Pad
01/19/68 - Countdown demonstration Test
01/22/68 - Launch

 

Payload:

LM-1 and nose cone.

 

Mission Objective:

Verify operation of Lunar Module ascent and descent propulsion systems. Evaluate Lunar Module staging. Evaluate S-IVB instrument unit performance. All mission objects achieved.

 

Launch:

January 22, 1968, 05:48:08 pm EST. Launch Complex 37B, Eastern Test Range, Cape Canaveral FL. Hold for 228 minutes when spacecraft water boiler temperature rose higher than planned, caused by problem in GSE freon supply, and a power supply in an output register in the digital data-acquisition system failed.

Launch Weight: xxx,xxx lbs.

 

 

Orbit:

Altitude: 961km
Inclination: xxx degrees
Orbits: 4
Duration: Days, hours, min, seconds
Distance: miles

 

Landing:

No recovery.

 

Mission Highlights:

Apogee was 222 km at insertion, LM/S-IVB seperation, and after first descent engine firing. Apogee was raised to 961 km after first ascent engine firing. Perigee was 163 km at insertion, 167km at separation, 171 after descent engine firing, and 172 km after ascent engine firing.
Click Here for more information about Apollo-5

Start your search on Apollo V.


Medallions of U.S. Presidents Hancock, Huntington, St.Clair -
Medallions of the Forgotten Capitols &
Constitution of 1777 U.S. Presidents
Click Here

Click Here For United States Court of Appeals Update

 

Forgotten Founders Historic Documents and Coins of Freedom - By Stanley L. Klos

Keynote Address on the 2003 Re-Internment of Samuel and Martha Huntington




Unauthorized Site: This site and its contents are not affiliated, connected, associated with or authorized by the individual, family, friends, or trademarked entities utilizing any part or the subject's entire name. Any official or affiliated sites that are related to this subject will be hyper linked below upon submission and Evisum, Inc. review.

Copyright© 2000 by Evisum Inc.TM. All rights reserved.
Evisum Inc.TM Privacy Policy

Search:

About Us

e-mail us

 


Click Here

 


Virtual Museum of Art | Virtual Museum of History | Virtual Public Library | Virtual Science Center | Virtual Museum of Natural History | Virtual War Museum