Apollo 12 (Yankee Clipper)

  1969-099A

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Yankee Clipper (Apollo CSM 108) was the Apollo 12 CSM, flown by Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon and Al Bean on the way to the second Moon landing. The crew were in quarantine from Nov 24 to Dec 11.

Yankee Clipper (CSM 108)
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1969 Nov 14	1622:00	Launch by Saturn V (SA-507)	KSC LC39A
	1622:44	Lightning strike on SA-507
	1623:00	CSM power restored
	1624:23	S-IC CECO
	1624:50	S-IC OECO, sep
	1624:52	S-II ignition
	1625:12	Interstage sep
	1625:18	LES sep
	1629:49	S-II CECO
	1631:20	S-II OECO
	1631:23	S-II sep, S-IVB ignition
	1633:42	S-IVB shutdown
	1633:52	Earth orbit insertion	88.2 185 x 185 x 32.6
	1700?	Optics covers jettison
	1909:31	S-IVB TLI burn
	1914:12	S-IVB cutoff
	1915:22	Translunar injection
	1940:13	Sep from S-IVB/SLA
		Transposition and docking maneuver
	1949	Docked with LM/S-IVB
	2035:08	CSM/LM sep from S-IVB
1969 Nov 15	1006	Pass EL1:4
	2314:44	MCC-2 burn
	2314:54	MCC-2 cutoff
1969 Nov 17	1252:30	Equigravisphere
1969 Nov 18	0347:31	SPS LOI-1 burn
1969 Nov 18	0353:23	Lunar orbit insertion	116 x 313 x 164.7
	0810:48	SPS LOI-2 burn	101 x 122 x 165
	0811:05	LOI-2 cutoff
1969 Nov 19	0000	CDR and LMP to LM
	0416:02	LM undocked
	0446:36	Sep burn	104 x 118 x 144.3
	0446:51	Sep burn cutoff
		Multispectral photos of surface
	1609:21	LOPC-1 burn	106 x 116
1969 Nov 20		LM rendezvous with CSM
	1758:30	LM docked with CSM
		CDR and LMP return to CSM with 32 kg lunar rock, Surveyor 3 parts
	2021:40	LM undocked
	2026:39	Sep burn	107 x 115
1969 Nov 21	1226:54	LOPC-2	105 x 120
		Survey of Fra Mauro and Descartes
	2049:17	SPS TEI burn
	2051:29	Transearth injection
1969 Nov 22	1249:15	MCC-5 burn
	1249:20	MCC-5 burn off
1969 Nov 24	1744:00	MCC-7 burn
	1744:05	MCC-7 burn off
	2029:28	SM-108 sep	38 x 531895 x 16.0
	2044:27	Entry
	2058:33	Splashdown 15 49 S 165 10W
		Recovered by USS Hornet

Kosmos 57

  1965-012A

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Flight article 3KD No. 1 was launched as Kosmos-57 to test the new Volga airlock. The 3KD variant of Voskhod used the inflatable Volga to allow a crewmember to emerge from the spacecraft for a spacewalk without depressurizing the main cabin, a luxury not available on US spacecraft until Skylab. Two instrumented dummies, probably wearing spacesuits, were placed aboard to verify the airlock, which was to have been jettisoned on the second orbit after the test was complete. However, at 0800 UTC on Feb 22 two ground stations sent simultaneous airlock commands which interfered with one another and were interpreted by the onboard programmer as a deorbit command. The engine fired in the wrong direction, leaving the spacecraft in orbit, and the destruct charge fired to destroy the cabin. NORAD tracked a large number of debris pieces. (Johnson (1980) quoted 0957 UTC as the explosion time).

Kosmos-57
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1965 Feb 22	0730	Launch by 11A57	KB
	0734	Blok-A sep
		Blok-I burn
	0739	Blok-I sep	90.42 165 x 427 x 64.7
	0750	Volga test
	0805?	Volga test
	0825	Accidental DU burn
		Tumbling 78 times a minute
	0904	Last commmanding of airlock
	0905?	Destruct charge fired
1965 Feb 25		First debris reentry