#White Sands

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Launch of Apollo Pad Abort Test 1

The Pad Abort (BP-6/PA-1) vehicle lifting off from LC-36 at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. This test flight was to investigate the effects on the Apollo spacecraft during an abort from the pad. It also tested the pitch motor and launch escape motor of the Launch Escape System (LES).

"The LES had to be able to pull the spacecraft away from an exploding rocket on the launch pad. The LES then had to gain enough altitude to allow the command module's parachutes to open, preferably with the spacecraft over water and not land.

The flight featured a production model LES and a boilerplate (BP-06) Apollo spacecraft, the first mission to feature one. The spacecraft carried no instruments for measuring structural loads as the capsule's boilerplate structure did not represent that of a real spacecraft."

-Information from Wikipedia: link

Date: November 7, 1963

North American Aviation photo: 7004-75-2A, 7004-75-2C

NM Museum of Space History: 1-0001, 1-0005, 1-0003

NASA ID: S63-21053, S63-13889, link, 63apollo221

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Moon at White Sands by John Fowler

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White Sands, New Mexico 🌍

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Sunset in White Sands New Mexico, Feb 2024

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“Overall view of BP-06 command module and launch escape system on adapter ring in firing position at Apollo-Little Joe II launch area, WSMR, N. M.”

Date: November 1963

NASA ID: S63-13884

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