National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Apollo AS-203

Saturn IB

SUCCESS
Success

Tuesday, July 5, 1966 · 14:53 UTC

Mission

/01

The purpose of Apollo 203 was to check out the behaviour of the fuel inside the Saturn-4B stage in weightlessness, which was crucial to allow the reignition of the stage.

Mission Type

Test Flight

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Successful

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Saturn IB

Variant: IB

Launch Pad

Space Launch Complex 37B

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

28.532° N, 80.565° W

7

Pad Launches

175

Location Launches

81

Agency Launches

66

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