Flights
The first launch, on August 28, 1963, carried an aluminum shell in the basic shape of the Apollo command module, with an LES attached. This flight proved the booster would work. The second launch, on May 13, 1964, carried a boilerplate capsule, BP-12, and performed the first successful abort using the new escape system. A third launch on December 8, 1964, using BP-23, tested the effectiveness of the LES when the pressures and stresses on the spacecraft were similar to what they would be during a real launch. The fourth flight, with BP-22 on May 19, 1965, was designed to test the escape system at a high altitude. The final launch, on January 20, 1966, carried CSM-002.
In addition, two pad abort tests were conducted in which the launch escape system was activated at ground level.
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Famous quotes containing the word flights:
“A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.”
—E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)
“Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)