Mission: Apollo 4

Taken/released on: 8/11/1967

Saturn V for Apollo 4 at the launch complex 39A

This is an image of the first test flight of a giant Saturn V rocket for the Apollo 4 mission at the Kennedy Space Center’s launch complex 39A, photographed at the dawn of November 8 during the pre-launch alert. Designated as Apollo 4, this mission was the first launch of the Saturn V launch vehicle. Objectives of the unmanned 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. (Source: MSFC)

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