#Apollo6 and Mobile Service Structure during rollout
February 6, 1968
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#Apollo6 and Mobile Service Structure during rollout
February 6, 1968
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#Apollo6 on the pad at sunset.
February 6, 1968
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#Apollo6 Saturn V during rollout
February 6, 1968
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A bird's-eye view of #Apollo6 and its gantry leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building on the transporter heading to the launch site on Pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center.
February 6, 1968
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#Apollo6 rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building.
February 6, 1968
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Dr. Robert R. Gilruth talks about the #Apollo6 unmanned mission's returned spacecraft during a visit to Houston by vice-presidential nominee Spiro T. Agnew.
October 28, 1968
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The Legacy of #Apollo6
Apollo 6 (also known as AS-502), launched on April 4, 1968, was the second A-type mission of the United States Apollo program, an uncrewed test of the Saturn V launch vehicle. It was also the final uncrewed Apollo test mission.
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Firing Room 2 during #Apollo6 launch operations.
Taken on April 4, 1968
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April 4, 1968 --- Scene at the flight operations director's console in the Mission Control Center, Building 30, during the #Apollo6 (Spacecraft 020/Saturn 520) unmanned space flight.
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Navy frogman team prepares the #Apollo6 Command Module (CM) for hoisting aboard the USS Okinawa.
April 4, 1968
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The #Apollo6 mission, which took place on April 4, 1968, was the last uncrewed Apollo flight. The success of the mission allowed the next Apollo mission, #Apollo7, to be launched with a crew.
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Launch of #Apollo6 (identifiable by its white-painted service module) as seen from the top of the launch tower.
April 4, 1968
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#Apollo6 (also known as AS-502), launched on April 4, 1968, was the final unmanned test of the Saturn V launch vehicle and Apollo Command & Service modules. AS-502 climbs to orbit, as seen from chase-plane.
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#Apollo6 (AS-502) launched on April 4, 1968 and suffered the loss of 2 engines in its second stage and failure to restart the J-2 engine when in orbit.
Also 10G pogo and a lot of parts fall over the vehicle.
Eight months later, the next Saturn V flight was crewed for #Apollo8.
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Forgotten flight: the lonely voyage of #Apollo6.
#Apollo6 launched 57 years ago #otd April 4 1968
The unmanned Saturn/Apollo 6 mission was designed as the final qualification of the Saturn V launch vehicle and Apollo spacecraft for manned Apollo missions.
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#Apollo6 on the pad at sunset.
February 6, 1968
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#Apollo6 and Mobile Service Structure during rollout
February 6, 1968
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#Apollo6 rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building.
February 6, 1968
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A bird's-eye view of #Apollo6 and its gantry leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building on the transporter heading to the launch site on Pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center.
February 6, 1968
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#Apollo6 Saturn V during rollout
February 6, 1968
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