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Post by Sticks on Jul 23, 2005 17:58:46 GMT -4
Apollo 17 was the last Apollo mission to the moon, but what I wondered was if the Apollo mission in the 1975 linkup had a number designation, and was that Apollo 18?
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jul 23, 2005 22:03:17 GMT -4
The only disignations I can find in the NASA documentation is that it was CSM 111. Otherwise they just call it Apollo. I believe that the Apollo missions to Skylab were prior to it as well so it would be unlikely to be 18 in any case.
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Post by Sticks on Jul 24, 2005 0:13:45 GMT -4
I forgot about the Skylab missions Did they give number desiginations to those apollo missions, or were number designations only for the moon landings?
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jul 24, 2005 2:00:39 GMT -4
Heh, well what do you know. I was looking here for the Skylab designations and they have the Apollo for the Apollo-Soyuz as 18. More on that hereSkylab missions were called Skylab I, II and III
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Post by Bob B. on Jul 24, 2005 20:45:17 GMT -4
After Apollo 17 the missions were:
Skylab 1 - Launch of unmanned space station. Skylab 2 - First manned occupation of Skylab. Skylab 3 - Second manned occupation of Skylab. Skylab 4 - Third manned occupation of Skylab. Apollo 18-ASTP - Joint flight with Soyuz 19.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jul 24, 2005 23:11:21 GMT -4
After Apollo 17 the missions were: Skylab 1 - Launch of unmanned space station. Skylab 2 - First manned occupation of Skylab. Skylab 3 - Second manned occupation of Skylab. Skylab 4 - Third manned occupation of Skylab. Apollo 18-ASTP - Joint flight with Soyuz 19. Well according to the page I linked to above Skylab Missions: Skylab I Launched: May 25, 1973 Landed: June 22, 1973 Orbits: 404 Time: 672 hours, 49 minutes, 49 seconds Crew: Charles "Pete" Conrad Paul J. Weitz Joseph P. Kerwin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Skylab II Launched: July 28, 1973 Landed: September 25, 1973 Orbits: 858 Time: 1,427 hours, 9 minutes, 4 seconds Crew: Alan L. Bean Jack R. Lousma Owen K. Garriott -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Skylab III Launched: November 16, 1973 Landed: February 8, 1974 Orbits: 1,214 Time: 2,017 hours, 16 minutes, 30 seconds Crew: Gerald P. Carr William R. Pogue Edward G. Gibson
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Post by Bob B. on Jul 24, 2005 23:24:16 GMT -4
Well according to the page I linked to above... This Web page lists them as Skylab 1, 2, 3 and 4; and both of the referenced pages are by NASA. When I do a Google search for “Skylab 4” I get 10,100 hits. With that many hits it seems likely Skylab 4 is a valid designation.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jul 24, 2005 23:38:07 GMT -4
Ah ha, we've caught NASA in a lie which proves that Skylab was faked and nothing really fell on Australia (Australiar?) afterall.
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Post by Al Johnston on Jul 25, 2005 5:26:34 GMT -4
Anyone read Rocket Man?
It's a biography of "Pete" Conrad, written in part by his second wife. In it, he says that Skylab was the highpoint of his Astronaut career.
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Post by gwiz on Aug 3, 2005 13:06:27 GMT -4
After Apollo 17 the missions were: Skylab 1 - Launch of unmanned space station. Skylab 2 - First manned occupation of Skylab. Skylab 3 - Second manned occupation of Skylab. Skylab 4 - Third manned occupation of Skylab. Apollo 18-ASTP - Joint flight with Soyuz 19. NASA seems to have a penchant for confusing designations, look at the Shuttle numbering system between STS 9 and STS 26:- 41-B, etc. The manned Skylab missions were certainly numbered 1 to 3, as a look at the crew patches will confirm, but Skylab 1 to 4 as in the quote were also used, as were SL 1 to SL 4. Apollo 18 was a cancelled mission, as were Apollos 2,3, 19 and 20. It was never used officially for ASTP, for which at the time the simple "Apollo" was sufficient.
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Post by ottawan on Aug 3, 2005 14:13:12 GMT -4
Agreed gwiz,
It was listed as Apollo(ASTP) but simply referred to while in orbit as "Apollo"
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Post by PhantomWolf on Aug 4, 2005 10:03:08 GMT -4
Apollo 18 was a cancelled mission, as were Apollos 2,3, 19 and 20. It was never used officially for ASTP, for which at the time the simple "Apollo" was sufficient. I might be wrong on this, but I don't think 2-3 actually existed at all as Apollo 1 was rectrospectively re-numbered long fter the accident occured, nd the new missions taken from there.
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Post by gwiz on Aug 4, 2005 10:15:05 GMT -4
I might be wrong on this, but I don't think 2-3 actually existed at all as Apollo 1 was rectrospectively re-numbered long fter the accident occured, nd the new missions taken from there. Apollo 1 wasn't retrospective, the name's on the crew patch. AFAIK NASA has never officially explained why the next number used was Apollo 4, but since there were two more crews assigned flights at the time of the Apollo 1 fire, it's logical to assume that their missions would have beeen Apollo 2 and 3, and the policy was changed after the fire to include the unmanned missions in the sequence.
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Post by LunarOrbit on Aug 4, 2005 11:02:06 GMT -4
Apollo 2 and 3 were actually called Apollo-Saturn 202 and 203 and were unmanned launches that took place prior to the Apollo 1 fire. Apollo 1 was actually refered to as Apollo-Saturn 204 until after the fire.
Apollo's 4-6 were unmanned test launches.
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Post by Sticks on Aug 4, 2005 11:13:02 GMT -4
8 - Round the back of the moon 10 - Dress Rehersal for A11
What about Apollo 7 and 9?
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