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Saturn IB | Apollo AS-203

Apollo AS-203

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 5 July 1966, 02:53 pm UTC

Rocket: Saturn IB (Saturn)

Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Mission

Type: Test Flight

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

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.