Apollo AS-203 Mission

Launch Status

Success

Date & Time

5 Jul 1966, 2:53pm

Location

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Launch Site

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Pad

Space Launch Complex 37B

Launch Service Provider

NASA logo

NASA

Vehicle

Saturn IB image

Saturn IB

Mission

Apollo AS-203

Mission Type

Test Flight

Destination

Low Earth Orbit

The purpose of Apollo 203 was to check out the behaviour of the fuel inside the Saturn-4B stage in weightlessness, which was crucial to allow the reignition of the stage.

Updated: Apr 16, 10:45am UTC

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