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Test spaceflights
- AS-105Engineers constructed the BP-9A boilerplate spacecraft to mimic the weight and shape of a real Apollo command module. This dummy vessel lacked life support…
- AS-203On the 5th of July 1966, an uncrewed Saturn IB rocket lifted off from Cape Kennedy. This flight carried no command and service module.
- Crew Dragon Demo-2NASA paid up to 80 million dollars for each astronaut seat on the Russian Soyuz vehicle after retiring its Space Shuttle fleet in 2011.
- AS-101The Saturn I launch vehicle carried its first boilerplate Apollo spacecraft into low Earth orbit on the 28th of May 1964.
- Saturn I SA-1The Saturn I SA-1 rocket stood three times taller than the Juno I vehicle that had launched Explorer 1 into orbit in 1958.
- A-001A-001 was the second abort test of the Apollo spacecraft. This mission aimed to prove that the launch escape system could safely remove the command module…
- Boilerplate (spaceflight)A boilerplate spacecraft is a nonfunctional craft or payload that serves as a mass simulator for testing launch vehicle configurations.