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[lonestarflight]

Cancelled Missions: Apollo AS-278

Planned launch: August 1967

Launch Vehicle: Saturn IB SA-207 and SA-208

Spacecraft: CSM-101 and LM-2

Prime crew:

-Commander: James Alton McDivitt

-Command Module Pilot: David Randolph Scott

-Lunar Module Pilot: Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart

Backup crew:

-Commander: Patten "Tom" Stafford CDR

-Command Module Pilot: John Watts Young

-Lunar Module Pilot: Eugene Andrew "Gene" Cernan

The mission number of AS-278, came from Saturn IB AS-207 and AS-208. It was also known as Apollo 3 and was planned as an D-type mission.

"It was planned that McDivitt's crew would conduct the Apollo D mission - a first manned test in earth orbit of the Lunar Module. Separate Saturn IB launches would put Apollo Block II CSM 101 / AS-207 and Lunar Module LM-2 / AS-208 into earth orbit a day later. The crew would then rendezvous and dock with the lunar module and put it through its paces.

When Schirra's Apollo 2 / AS-205 mission was cancelled in November 1966, the booster went to McDivitt's mission, and it was called AS-205/208, or AS-258."

-information from Astrnautix.com: link

Command Module 101 for Apollo-Saturn 205 mission on the workstand.

NASA ID: S68-42486

LM-2 under construction in Bethpage, Long Island, New York.

NASA ID: S68-36263

This flight was cancelled due of the Apollo 1 launch pad fire on January 27, 1967. After the fire, it was decided to launch the mission on a single Saturn V as Apollo 9. The prime crew remained the same for Apollo 9 but the backup crew flew as Apollo 10.

Information from spacefacts.de: link

Launch of AS-205 (CSM-101/SA-205) from LC-34 while AS-208 (LM-2/SA-208) waiting on LC-37B to launch the next day

Screenshot from orbit-forum.com: link

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"A ground-level view of Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, showing the Skylab 3/Saturn IB (CSM-117/SA-207) space vehicle during prelaunch preparations. The launch vehicle is venting liquid oxygen during pre-final countdown cryogenic loading."

Date: July 20, 1973

NASA ID: S73-31697

[lonestarflight]

Cancelled Flights: Apollo 3, later 2 (AS-207/208, later AS-205/208) (Part 2)

Commander: James Alton McDivitt

CM Pilot: David Randolph Scott

LM Pilot: Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart

Planned Launch: August 1967

Vehicles: Saturn IB (SA-207 & SA-208, later SA-205 & SA-208), CSM-101, LM-2

"Planned Apollo D mission. Two Saturn IB launches would put Apollo CSM and LM into orbit. CSM crew would dock with LM, test it in earth orbit. Cancelled after Apollo 204 fire.

Before the Apollo 1 fire, it was planned that McDivitt's crew would conduct the Apollo D mission - a first manned test in earth orbit of the Lunar Module. Separate Saturn IB launches would put Apollo Block II CSM 101 / AS-207 and Lunar Module LM-2 / AS-208 into earth orbit. The crew would then rendezvous and dock with the lunar module and put it through its paces. After the fire, it was decided to launch the mission on a single Saturn V as Apollo 9. CSM-101 instead would be used to accomplish the Apollo C mission that Grissom's crew was to have flown.

LM-2 was modified to appear like the Apollo 11 Lunar Module "Eagle," and displayed at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.

When Schirra's Apollo 2 / AS-205 mission was cancelled in November 1966, the booster went to McDivitt's mission, and it was called AS (or Apollo) 205/208, or AS-258 (before Schirra's cancellation, McDivitt's was AS-278, because it used Saturn IB boosters 207 and 208).

-Information from Astronautix.com: link

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Smithsonian Archives: A19711598000

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Skylab III Saturn IB (SL-3/SA-207) rollout from VAB to Pad 39B. This mission was scheduled for launch on July 27, 1973.

Date: June 11, 1973

NASA ID: 108-KSC-73P-368, 73-H-498

[lonestarflight]

"Floodlights illuminate view of Skylab 3 vehicle at Pad B, Launch Complex 39

Floodlights illuminate this nighttime view of the Skylab 3/Saturn 1B space vehicle at Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, during prelaunch preparations. The reflection is the water adds to the scene. In addition to the Command/Service Module and its launch escape system, the Skylab 3 space vehicle consists of the Saturn 1B first (S-IB) stage and the Saturn IB second (S-IVB) stage. The crew for the scheduled 59-day Skylab 3 mission in Earth orbit will be astronauts Alan L. Bean, Owen K. Garriott and Jack R. Lousma. Skylab 3 was launched on July 28, 1973."

Date: July 20, 1973

NASA ID: S73-32568

[lonestarflight]

Launch of Skylab 3

Skylab 3 Saturn IB (CSM-117/SA-207) lifting off from Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 7:11 a.m. (EDT).

"Skylab 3 is the second of three scheduled Skylab manned missions. Aboard the Skylab 3 Command/Service Module were astronauts Alan L. Bean, Owen K. Garriott and Jack R. Lousma. The Skylab 3 CSM later docked with the Skylab space station cluster in Earth orbit. In addition to the CSM and its launch escape system, the Skylab 3 space vehicle consisted of the Saturn IB first (S-IB) stage and the Saturn IB second (S-IVB) stage. (The Skylab 1/Saturn V space vehicle with the space station payload was launched from Pad A on May 14, 1973)."

Date: July 28, 1973

NASA ID: S73-32570

[lonestarflight]

"Workers at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) near New Orleans, Louisiana, install the last engine on the S-IB-12 stage. Developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and built by the Chrysler Corporation at MAF, the S-IB stage utilized eight H-1 engines to produce a combined thrust of 1,600,000 pounds."

In the background is S-IB-7, which launched Skylab 3 into space on July 28, 1973. This S-IB-12 was intended for the SA-212 launch vehicle. Its second stage, S-IVB, was converted into the Skylab Orbit Workshop and launched on the Saturn V SA-513 on May 14, 1973. Its first stage, S-IB, was later scrapped.

Date: 1967

NASA ID: 6759809

[lonestarflight]

"A ground-level view of Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, showing the Skylab 3/Saturn IB (CSM-117/SA-207) space vehicle during prelaunch preparations. The launch vehicle is venting liquid oxygen during pre-final countdown cryogenic loading."

Date: July 20, 1973

NASA ID: S73-31697