Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission
Type: Human Exploration
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Launch Complex 34, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
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.
