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R PROJECT:
SCHEDULED LAUNCH:
APOLLO BOILERPLATE 22
CONTENTS
S Flight Plan...............................
Test Vehicle Components and
Characteristics.........................
4-6
6-11
KT
To be launched no earlier than May 19.
NATIINAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
N E AdA WASHINGTON, D.C. 20546
TELS WO 2-4155
WO 3-6925
FOR RELEASE: SUNDAY
May 9, 1965
IflEA"AE NO: 65-145
NASA TO TEST
APOLLO ESCAPE SYSTEM
AT HIGH ALTITUDE
-more- 4/30/65
-2-
-more-
-3-
launch pad.
pressure tests dispite failure of one of' the three main space-
31.000 feet.)
to be 1 aurlikef
FLIGHT PLAN
escape rocket motors, and (1.1 seconds later) depolyment of' the
canard surfaces
-more-
The Apollo launch escape vehicle will coast in tumbling
the tower jettison rocket motor will carry away the launch
-more-
-6-
T Lift-off
each.
-more -
The Little Joe II has an attitude control subsystem
siirnal .
during boosted fl.ight and from heat and soot generated by the
__in _ - ,- ore -
The dummy aft (base) heat shield on the command module
damage.
-more-
-9-
recovery at sea.
oscillations.
and evaluation.
-more-
-11-
CONTRACTOR PARTICIPATION
II.
son motor.
system.
-more -
-12-
-end-
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Range extension
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Command module nominal
landing point
600 - -/
| ___ jLaunch vehicle nominal
.i landing point
500 -
White Sands
F
Missile Range
400 -
40|-Nominal flight path
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300 -
White Sands
I 2National Monument
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Alamogordo
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Launch
-site
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E i -Canard
deployment V
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LEV ig trajectory
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80 -
COMMAND MODULE
(BOILERPLATE STRUCTUR BOO ST PROTECTIVE
COVER
DUMMY SCIMITAR
ANTENNAS DUMMY UMBILICAL
(2 PLACES) CONNECTION
SERVICE MOOULE
/* (BOILERPLATE STRUCTURE,
DUMMY REACTION
CONTROL SUBSYSTEM
ENGINES '4 PLACES)
_-__ S-S
ERVICE MODULE
EXTENS ION
LITTLE JOE II
INTERFACE
Little Joe II
launch vehicle
393, 8
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Tower jettison
motor
Tower separation
bolts
Commana moaule