We all remember the tragic fire that claimed the lives of the three Apollo 1 crew members. The next manned flight was Apollo 7. Whatever happened to Apollo’s 2 thru 6 ?
Just curious.
This has been asked before, but I don’t have the time to run a search right now.
Apollo 2 through 6 were unmanned flights to test the Saturn/Apollo system. Actually, I don’t think they were officially called “Apollo 2 through 6” at the time, but were assigned arcane NASA flight numbers. I think the Apollo mission names were applied retroactively.
Hey, if I’m wrong someone will correct me in a minute.
Here was the last time it was discussed, with quite a few responses:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=63109
(There sure are a lot of freaking Apollo threads. 168 in GQ alone.)