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Apollo 5
Saturn IB · Human Exploration
1968Launch Complex 34, Cape Canaveral
Mission
The Apollo 5 mission tested the Lunar Module in a space environment, in particular its descent and ascent engine systems, and its ability to separate the ascent and descent stages. The descent engine would become the first throttleable rocket engine fired in space.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- NASA
- Rocket
- Saturn IB
- Orbit
- LEO
- Pad
- Launch Complex 34
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2