Sunday, April 4, 2010

What Happened to the Apollo 1 Hardware?

A lot has been written about the Apollo 1 Command Module within which Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee perished. But what happened to the rest of the hardware? What happened to the Apollo launch vehicle upon which the Command Module rested?

On that tragic day in 1967, the Apollo 1 crew sat atop a Saturn 1B rocket. That Saturn 1B eventually launched on January 22, 1968, carrying Apollo 5 into orbit. It was the very first launch of a Lunar Module, LM-1. The Lunar Module had no crew. It didn't even have legs. But it provided NASA with an essential opportunity to test the Moon lander.

Here at NASA Nostalgia we're currently reading the NASA Apollo 11 Owners' Workshop Manual: 1969


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