Apollo 205
Mission · USA
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Apollo CSM / LM vs L3 Lunar Complex
Credit: © Mark Wade
Planned second solo flight test of the Block I Apollo CSM on a Saturn IB. Cancelled after the Apollo 204 fire.
This flight was referred to by everyone outside of the astronaut office as AS-205 or CSM-014. This flight was finally seen as unnecessary; the decision to cancel it came on November 16 and was officially announced on December 22, 1966; the Schirra crew instead became, briefly, the backup crew to Apollo 1 (replacing the original backup crew of McDivitt, Scott, Schweickart). After the Apollo 1 fire on January 27, 1967, the Schirra crew was assigned to Apollo 7, the first manned flight test of the new Block II Apollo CSM-101.
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1967 April
- Apollo 205 (cancelled) - .
Crew: Cunningham,
Eisele,
Schirra.
Backup Crew: Borman,
Collins,
Stafford.
Payload: CSM-014. Nation: USA.
Program: Apollo.
Flight: Apollo 205.
Spacecraft: Apollo CSM.
It was originally planned to make a second solo flight test of the Block I Apollo CSM on a Saturn IB. The flight was finally seen as unnecessary; the decision to cancel it came on November 16, 1966. After the Apollo 1 fire on January 27, 1967, the Schirra crew was assigned to Apollo 7, the first manned flight test of the new Block II Apollo CSM-101.