Little Joe II | A-004
Launch Successful
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Instantaneous launch window.
Launch Window
Jan. 20, 1966, 3:17 p.m. - Jan. 20, 1966, 3:17 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
Jan. 20, 1966, 3:17 p.m. - Jan. 20, 1966, 3:17 p.m.
A-004 was the sixth and final test of the Apollo launch escape vehicle and the first flight of a Block I production-type Apollo Command/Service Module.
American rocket used from 1963 to 1966 for five uncrewed suborbital tests of the Apollo spacecraft launch escape system and of the command module parachute recovery system in abort mode.
Apollo CSM used for the A-004 suborbital test flight.
Apollo Command/Service Module DetailsConvair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was formed in 1943 by the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft. In 1953 it was purchased by General Dynamics, and operated as their Convair Division for most of its corporate history.
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