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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: <12959@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 7 Aug 88 04:44:13 GMT
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Reply-To: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
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In article <1988Aug3.151700.8678@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
>Tsk tsk, Grasshopper, you have not been paying attention. :-)
>
>To recap what I posted a while back, there were no official "Apollo N"
>designations before the fire, and in fact there was some confusion about
>what the first manned flight would be called; the crew was calling it
>Apollo 1, while the booster people were calling it Apollo 4.  The only
>official name it had was Apollo 204, a NASA internal mission code.

I see the error of my ways oh wise one :-). I checked David Baker's book
and he says virtually the same thing. Interestingly enough however, the
Apollo Chronology series lists Apollo 1, Apollo 1-A, Apollo 2, and Apollo 3
as "rejected numbers" in the index then refers the reader to the AS-20X 
entries.

The crew's personal reference to the Apollo 1 title would explain it's
presence on their patch. 

Oh, by the way Henry, have you ever seen an Apollo 1, er, AS 204 flight
plan?? I glommed on to the Apollo CSM012 Operations Handbook a while back
and the AS-204 review board results which was supposed to include a 
copy of the manual, but couldn't find it.



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