Apollo abort modes
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title:
Apollo abort modes
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Apollo abort modes were procedures by which the nominal launch of an Apollo spacecraft, either the Saturn IB or Saturn V rocket, could be terminated. The abort of the flight allowed for the rescue of the crew if the rocket failed catastrophically. Depending on how far the flight had progressed, different procedure or modes would be used. In the history of the Apollo Program, none of the abort modes were ever used on any of the fifteen crewed Apollo spacecraft flights. Houston's announcements of
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Plans for mission abort during an Apollo spacecraft launch
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_abort_modes
date created:
2004-10-16T01:29:42Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T10:32:48Z
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