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Apollo test flight. Sept. 18 - Apollo Boilerplate 15 was successfully orbited at Cape Kennedy by a Saturn I two-stage launch vehicle. This was the fourth Apollo test flight. Dec. 8 - The fifth Apollo test flight at White Sands Boilerplate 23 was lifted off the pad by a Little Joe II in a high 0 abort test. 274
Apollos 7 and 9 were Earth orbiting missions to test the Command and Lunar Modules, and did not return lunar data. Apollos 8 and 10 tested various components while orbiting the Moon, and returned photography of the lunar surface.
Expansion of the one-sixth scale model tests in the areas of nonsymmetrical landings and soil landings. Planning of mechanism tests on LTA-3 with attention to their timelines. Investigation of use of the LTA-3 or LEM-1 for structural elasticity tests.
Examining a one-eighth scale model of the LEM are, left to right, Congressman George P. Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics; Joseph M. Gavin, Grumman vice president; and Robert S. Mullaney, Grumman Apollo Program Manager.
The development of the Apollo spacecraft is traced along with that of Saturn V. Emphasis is placed on the detailed engineering design and exhaustive testing performed to qualify both the command and service modules and the lunar module for manned flight.
Apollo 9 was an Earth orbital mission that tested the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) in space for the first time. The crew performed the first crewed test of the complete Apollo spacecraft, including docking and undocking maneuvers between the Command Module (CM) and the Lunar Module (LM).
The test model demonstrated its steering capability on command from the blockhouse after 100 sec had elapsed; the firing consumed 2.133-million liters (537,000 gallons) of kerosene and liquid oxygen. Space Business Daily, August 9, 1965, p. 185.
