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Apollo boilerplate spacecraft and Pegasus-3 spacecraft are being mated to Saturn booster SA-10 at launch complex 37.
Date: July 21, 1965
NASA ID: 65-H-1256
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Apollo boilerplate spacecraft and Pegasus-3 spacecraft are being mated to Saturn booster SA-10 at launch complex 37.
Date: July 21, 1965
NASA ID: 65-H-1256
Launch of AS-105 (SA-10)
Liftoff of Apollo AS-105 Saturn I Block II (BP-9A/SA-10), from LC-37B at 8:00 am EST. This consisted of an Apollo boilerplate (BP-9A) spacecraft and Pegasus-3 micrometeroid detection satellite. The primary goal of this flight was to continuation testing Saturn's iterative guidance mode and evaluate the system accuracy.
Apollo spacecraft hardhat decal for BP-9. source
Note: the boilerplate service module is equipped with a single RCS thruster. One of the mission objectives was to test the Reaction Control Engine package of Apollo.
Example of the RCS thruster, up close.
Date: July 30, 1965
NASA ID: link, 107-KSC-65C-4699, 65-H-1340, link
Science Photo Library: C004/6562
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