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Topic: Which Saturn V launch vehicle is this? (photo)
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LM-12
Member Posts: 3324
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 03-13-2018 10:04 AM
  
Which Saturn V launch vehicle is seen in this photo (s69-27089)? The caption says it is Apollo 10 on Pad 39B. Overall view of Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, showing the Apollo 10 (Spacecraft 106/Lunar Module-4/Saturn 505) space vehicle during a Countdown Demonstration Test. The Apollo 10 flight is scheduled as a lunar orbit mission. Apollo 10 was on ML-3, but ML-2 can clearly be seen in the high-res image. So the vehicle is not Apollo 10, and that is not Pad B.It might be Apollo 9, Apollo 12 or Apollo 14.  |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 43576
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-13-2018 10:50 AM
According to Retro Space Images, it is Apollo 9, taken on Feb. 23, 1969.Update: Via JL Pickering, the photo was taken on Feb. 17, 1969 on the eve of the countdown demonstration test. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3324
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 03-13-2018 11:44 AM
I think the launch was still scheduled for February 28, the original launch date, when that photo was taken.
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LM-12
Member Posts: 3324
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 03-15-2018 10:06 AM
The flight was postponed on February 27 due to crew illness. From the launch vehicle flight evaluation report:
The AS-504 Apollo 9 terminal countdown was picked up at 22:00:00 EST, February 26, 1969 (-28 hours). At 10:00:00 EST, February 27, 1969 (-16 hours) the scheduled 3-hour hold began, but at 10:30:00 EST during this hold, the space vehicle was recycled to -42 hours because of the astronauts medical condition. Count pickup time was 2:30:00 EST, March 1, 1969. |
moonguyron
Member Posts: 191
From: Trinity, FL USA
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 03-18-2018 02:52 PM
Any idea on which astronaut's condition and what that might have been? |
canyon42
Member Posts: 238
From: Ohio
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 03-18-2018 03:03 PM
All three astronauts were showing cold symptoms a day or two before the scheduled launch date. | |
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