AS-202: The Last Test Flight Before Apollo 1

By the summer of 1966 it had already been five years since the late President John F. Kennedy had committed the United States to a manned lunar landing by the end of the decade. While the US seemed… By the summer of 1966 it had already been five years since the late President John F. Kennedy had committed the United States to a manned lunar landing by the end of the decade. While the US seemed to have had a slow start as the Soviet Union chalked up one important space first after another, by the summer of 1966 the American space program was making visible progress. In the beginning of June, NASA had landed Surveyor 1 on the lunar surface (see “Surveyor 1: NASA’s First Lunar Landing”). Two months later, Lunar Orbiter 1 reached the Moon and started a systematic mapping of potential lunar landing sites (see “Lunar Orbiter 1: America’s First Lunar Satellite”).

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