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From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Apollo trivia (was Challenger tragedy)
Message-ID: <12716@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 2 Aug 88 15:27:13 GMT
References: <1001@scicom.alphacdc.com> <5827@dasys1.UUCP> <14876@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
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In article <14876@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> saki@sonia.MATH.UCLA.EDU (D. MacLaughlan) writes:
> [delete, delete delete]
>Apollos 2-6 were unmanned, I thought, and Apollo 8 followed in December '68.
>

Gotcha! There were no Apollo 2 or 3 missions. The first was Apollo 4 in 
November 1967 I think. This was the first Saturn V flight test. I haven't
heard any good reason as to why they jumped the mission designators.
Originally Apollo 2 would have been the Schirra and Co.



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