1967-113A
Apollo CSM 017 was launched on the first Saturn V test flight, SA-501, at 1200:01 on 1967 Nov 9. The AS-501 mission was given the designation Apollo 4 (the AS-201, 202, and 203 missions were tentatively reassigned the names Apollo 1 to 3, but at the request of the families of the AS-204 fire victims that never-flown mission was given the name Apollo 1, leaving the nomenclature ambiguous).
The Apollo 4 mission was to test the SPS (Service Propulsion System) engine in the Service Module and the heat shield of the Command Module. The Saturn delivered Apollo 4 into an elliptical Earth orbit. The SPS was fired once to increase apogee and an second time to increase reentry speed to 11.1 km/s. CM-017 landed in the Pacific at 2037 on Nov 9, having passed its tests with flying colors.
| Apollo CSM 017 Mission Log | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 Nov 9 | 1200:01 | Launch | |
| 1967 Nov 9 | 1202:26 | S-IC inboard engine cutoff | |
| 1967 Nov 9 | 1202:31 | S-IC shutdown | |
| 1967 Nov 9 | 1202:32 | S-IC separation 64 km | -6031 x 117 x 32.08 |
| 1967 Nov 9 | 1202:36 | S-II ignition | |
| 1967 Nov 9 | 1203:05 | Interstage separation | |
| 1967 Nov 9 | 1203:08 | LES separation | -5950? x 138? x 32.5? |
| 1203:13 | Camera capsules ejected from S-II (2) | ||
| 1967 Nov 9 | 1208:41 | S-II cutoff | |
| 1967 Nov 9 | 1208:41 | S-II separation 192.3 km | -2306 x 193 x 32.73 |
| 1967 Nov 9 | 1208:45 | S-IVB-501 ignition | |
| 1967 Nov 9 | 1208:52 | Ullage motor cases jettisoned | |
| 1967 Nov 9 | 1211:01 | S-IVB shutdown, Earth orbit insertion at 183 x 188 km x 32.7 | |
| 192 x 203 x 32.75 | |||
| 1967 Nov 9 | 1511:27 | S-IVB restart, 5 min burn | 203 x 219 x 32.74 |
| 1516:27 | MECO-2 538 km | -80 x 17228 x 30.44 | |
| -81 x 17209 x 30.31 | |||
| 60 x 17209 km | |||
| 1526:30 | SLA panels deploy | ||
| 1967 Nov 9 | 1526:30 | S-IVB separation 2422 km | |
| 1967 Nov 9 | 1528:08 | SPS-1 burn | -81 x 17240 x 30.34 |
| 1528:24 | SPS-1 cutoff, 2835 km | ||
| 80 x 18092 km x 30.13 deg | |||
| -83 x 18092 x 30.31 | |||
| -88 x 18117 x 30.34 | |||
| 1967 Nov 9 | 1746:49 | Apogee | -204 x 18092 x 30.35 |
| 1967 Nov 9 | 2010:57 | SPS-2 burn, reentry shaping (4min 30s) | -89 x 18188 x 30.33 |
| 2015:37 | SPS-2 cutoff 669 km | 26 x Inf x 30.39 | |
| 1967 Nov 9 | 2018:04 | SM-017 separation 270 km | 28 x Inf |
| -67 x Inf (tab 5.15.-IV) | |||
| 1967 Nov 9 | 2019:30 | 122 km Entry interface -6.93 deg 11.138 km/s | |
| 2020:47 | 50.2 km begin skip | ||
| 2024:13 | 72 km skip apogee | ||
| 2026:30 | 48 km on descent | ||
| 1967 Nov 9 | 2037:11 | Splashdown 30.1N, 172.5W | |
| 1967 Nov 9 | 2251 | Recovered by USS Bennington | |
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