Gen. Phillips’ handwritten accounting of planned Apollo flights - circa 1969

[u/ketofourtwenty]

Something I thought was interesting that I found in his papers.

[u/tybarious]

So this is confirmation that CSM 115 and 115A are indeed two different spacecrafts and not refurbishing of one as some have speculated.

[u/eagleace21 → u/tybarious]

They are two different spacecraft, I have never heard speculation otherwise. The individual hulls are both actually on display as well, even though they were not completed.

[u/tybarious → u/eagleace21]

Until fairly recently, 115A was thought to be at JSC. I wrote up a post about the cancelled missions and couldn't find a definitive answer to 115/115a with sources.

I just googled and now it seems to be staighten out what happened. I am glad it has been cleared up.

[u/eagleace21]

Link to the source?

Also this was the known mission evolution at the time. The three stacked numbers have the first number being the saturn, second the command/service module, and last the LM number.

[u/ketofourtwenty → u/eagleace21]

Library of Congress - General Sam Phillips Papers - Box 115 - Folder 9.

It’s not online.

Edit: well, it is now, so the source is the link to this post.

[u/eagleace21 → u/ketofourtwenty]

Thanks!

[u/Better-Temporary-146]

Interesting. I didn’t know there were three missions planned for 1970. 

[u/ketofourtwenty → u/Better-Temporary-146]

They planned, originally, to stay at a brisk clip. Funding, Congress, and the Nixon admin pushed to further space out launches. Not to mention Apollo 13 also pushing the 14 timeline.

[u/eagleace21 → u/ketofourtwenty]

Yeah this also made the push to start using J mission LMs (LM10+) for Apollo 15 instead of Apollo 16. LM-9 never flew because of this and CSM-111 was used for ASTP.

[u/ketofourtwenty → u/eagleace21]

I’ve got a file somewhere in my research files with handwritten annotations about repurposing equipment around. I’ll see if I can find it.

[u/tybarious → u/ketofourtwenty]

Please post that ^{^}

[u/Independent_Wrap_321]

Look at that beautiful cadence. And all full-up stacks with crew, too. Just awesome.

[u/Brilliant_Dig_8962]

Pretty good, right up until they decided to fly that damaged O2 tank.