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A-002 Apollo Boilerplate Capsule (BP-23) being loaded on a trailer following its test flight.
"A launch on December 8, 1964, using BP-23, tested the effectiveness of the LES when the pressures and stresses on the spacecraft were similar to what they would be during a Saturn IB or Saturn V launch."
Date: December 8, 1964
Posted on Flickr by Drew Granston.
NASA ID: S64-39583, WSMR-64-BP23-71
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A-002 Apollo Boilerplate Capsule (BP-23) parachuting back to Earth after completion of its Max-Q abort test flight.
Date: December 8, 1964
NASA ID: 64-H-2862
Launch preparations for A-002 Apollo Little Joe II (BP-23/ Vehicle 12-51-1) at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. This was the Max-Q Abort test flight of the Apollo Command Module and Launch Escape System.
Date: December 6, 1964
NASA ID: 64-H-2749
A-002 Apollo Boilerplate Capsule (BP-23) is being erected for mating with Little Joe II launcher (Vehicle 12-51-1) in preparation for Apollo Intermediate Altitude Abort at White Sands Missile Range.
Date: December 5, 1965
NASA ID: 65-H-2010
The Launch Pad Abort Test 2 (PA-2) Apollo Boilerplate (BP-23A) being prepared at the Vehicle Assembly Building at White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico.
This capsule was used on two test flights. It was originally BP-23 and flew on A-002 on December 8, 1964 for a Max-Q Abort of the Apollo Launch Escape System. It was refurbished as BP-23A and used for PA-2 on June 29, 1965. This appears to be taken some time between the flights.
Currently, BP-23A is displayed as part of the SA-500D Saturn V exhibit at the US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama.
Date: 1965
New Mexico Museum of Space History:
NASA ID: S65-14933
View of the A-002 Apollo Command Module Boilerplate 23 ad LES atop the Little Joe II launch vehicle at Complex 35, WSMR.
Date: December 7, 1964
NASA ID: S64-35835
A-002 Apollo Little Joe II (BP-23/12-51-1) was the third abort test of the Apollo spacecraft and Launch Escape System. It launched from Launch Complex 36, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico and tested the abort during the maximum dynamic pressure region (Max-Q) of the Saturn IB and Saturn V launch trajectory.
Date: December 8, 1964
NASA ID: 64-H-2804, 64-H-2805, S64-40370, S64-40370
Apollo A-002 Boilerplate 23 (BP-23) Command Module being mated to the Little Joe II Launch Vehicle at Launch Complex 36, White Sands Missile Range.
Date: 1964
NASA ID: S64-32591, 64-H-2748, WSMR-0008, S64-32986, S64-32983, source
