A-001
Sign in to saveA-001 was the second abort test of the Apollo spacecraft.
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- Little Joe II launch.jpg
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- Abort test
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- NASA
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- 5 minutes, 50.3 seconds
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- Apollo BP-12
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- Little Joe II
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- White Sands LC-36
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- UTC
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- Pad Abort Test 1
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- A-002
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- Project ApolloAbort Tests
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- Part of
- Apollo program
- Country
- United States
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- AS-101
- Follows
- Saturn-Apollo 5
- Image
- Little Joe II launch.jpg
- Significant event
- landing
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- vessel
- Little Joe II
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Objectives
- Flight
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A-001 was the second abort test of the Apollo spacecraft.
==Objectives== Mission A-001 was the second in the series of tests conducted to demonstrate that the launch escape system could safely remove the command module under critical abort conditions. Unlike Pad Abort Test 1, in which the launch escape system was ignited at ground level, this mission was flown to demonstrate the capability of the escape system to propel the command module safely away from a launch vehicle while in the high-dynamic-pressure (transonic) region of the Saturn trajectory.
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