#bp-15

[lonestarflight]

View of the AS-102 Saturn I Block II (BP-15/SA-7) launch vehicle on the launch pad 37B for a Radio Frequency Interference Test.

Date: August 13, 1964

NASA ID: S64-30617

[lonestarflight]

Apollo Command Module boiler plate #15 (BP-15) is being checked out at Hangar A-F, prior to stacking onto the AS-102 Saturn I Block II (SA-7) launch vehicle at Launch Complex 37, pad B, Cape Canaveral, Florida,

"The command module structure, heat shield, and internal equipment arrangement will protect the astronauts from the hazards of radiation in space. The module will contain subsystems to provide electrical power, communications, orientation control, orientation stabilization, environmental control, earth landing and crew-support subsystem.”

Date: June 1964

NASA ID: 64-SA7-7

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[lonestarflight]

"Ground level view of the Saturn I SA-7 vehicle on pad 37B with service gantry removed, showing the entire vehicle during Radio Frequency Interference Test check at KSC.

The upper half of the vehicle, about 80 feet long and weighing about 37,000 pounds, is expected to be placed in orbit."

Date: August 24, 1964

NASA ID: MSFC-4-11677, 107-KSC-64-16790

[lonestarflight]

The payload for AS-102 (SA-7), boilerplate Apollo spacecraft (BP-15), service module and adapter section, is being loaded onto a trailer and transported to be stacked on the Saturn I launch vehicle at Launch Complex 37B.

Date: June 26, 1964

NASA ID: KSC-64-4821, KSC-64-4866, 64-SA7-9

Space News Roundup! (MSFC Houston) Vol. 3, No. 21, p. 5. August 5, 1964.: link

[lonestarflight]

Launch of AS-102 (SA-7)

Liftoff of AS-102 Saturn I (BP-15/SA-7) from LC-37B. The mission objective was the final qualification flight for Saturn I launcher. This flight carried the boilerplate Apollo spacecraft BP-15 into low Earth orbit and testing lasted for five orbits (about seven and a half hours).

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"The Saturn I, Block II rocket demonstrated vehicle and spacecraft compatibility and tested the launch escape system. The S-IV upper stage of the rocket consisted of a cluster of six RL-10 engines, which employed liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellants to produce a combined thrust of 90,000 pounds."

"Diagram showing the trajectory and major events of the ascent of SA-7."

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The spacecraft and its upper stage completed 59 orbits before reentering the atmosphere and crashing in the Indian Ocean on September 22, 1964.

Date: September 18, 1964

NASA ID: S64-12621, S64-30975, S64-30976, link, 105-KSC-64P-81, 64-H-2311

[lonestarflight]

AS-102 Saturn I Block II (BP-15/SA-7) on LC-37B.

Date: September 1964

NASA ID: 64-H-2185

[janhemme]

A “Blackface”-mod of my Squier BP-15 bass amp: I added Moog-style knobs, chrome Neutrik jacks and moved the status LED to a red pilot-light crystal that is now sitting in the external speaker out (had to make the hole in the chassis a little wider and simply covered the print with black electrical tape)