#sa-501

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"Dramatic view of the launch of Apollo 4, the first full-up test of the awesome Saturn V, 7:00:01 a.m. (EST), Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center."

Date: November 9, 1967

NAR-Rocketdyne photo no. VEH690

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Diagram illustrating the flight path of the Apollo 4 mission.

Date: November 9, 1967

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View of the S-IC stage of Apollo 4 Saturn V (SA-501) on Mobile Launcher-1 in the Vertical Assembly Building.

Date: fall 1966

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Diagram illustrating the Apollo 4 mission from the second S-IVB burn to reentry.

Date: November 9, 1967

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Diagram highlighting the key aspects of the Apollo 4 (AS-501) mission.

"Orbit:

Altitude: 11,240 miles

Inclination: 32.6 degrees

Orbits: orbital

Duration: nine hours, 37 minutes

Mission Highlights

During the third orbit and after SPS engine burn, the spacecraft coasted to a simulated translunar trajectory, reaching an altitude of 18,079 km. The AS-501 launch marked the initial flight testing of the S-IC and S-II stages. The first stage S-IC performed accurately with the center F-1 engine cutting off at 135.5 seconds. The outboard engines cut off when the vehicle was traveling 9,660 kmh at an altitude of 61.6 km. This also was the point of LOX depletion at 150.8 seconds. Stage separation occurred only 1.2 seconds off the predicted time. Cutoff of the S-II occurred at 519.8 seconds."

Date: November 9, 1967

NASA ID: IND 1200-94C, 67-H-1389

NAA infographic: S87MS15699, S87MS15703

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“FIRST SATURN V LAUNCH--The 36-story-tall Apollo/Saturn V and its spacecraft are pictured at launch during the Apollo 4 mission later this year at Kennedy Space Center in this North American Space Division illustration. Apollo/Saturn V is bigger than any space vehicle ever launched, including any claimed by Russia. At launch, it weighs 6,200,000 pounds (A good-sized Navy destroyer weighs only 4,400,000 pounds.) The Apollo spacecraft and the Saturn V second stage are produced by North American’s Space Division for NASA.”

Date: November 9, 1967

NAA photo: 092167, A-122

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Lines connections from Mobile Service Structure to the Apollo 4 spacecraft NAA equip prior to CDDT.

Date: October 3, 1967

NASA ID: 107-KSC-67-15926

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"This photograph shows an early moment of the first test flight of the Saturn V vehicle for the Apollo 4 mission, photographed by a ground tracking camera, on the morning of November 9, 1967. This mission was the first launch of the Saturn V launch vehicle. Objectives of the unmarned Apollo 4 test flight were to obtain flight information on launch vehicle and spacecraft structural integrity and compatibility, flight loads, stage separation, and subsystems operation including testing of restart of the S-IVB stage, and to evaluate the Apollo command module heat shield."

Date: November 9, 1967

NASA ID: 6761216