SPACE TEST
Misfire Of Engine (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) CAPE KENNEDY, Jan. 23. The engine built to land men on the moon failed its first space test last night, but passed a second to salvage a puzzling conclusion to the maiden flight of the Apollo moonship. Not only did the critical landing engine fire twice 90 minutes after its opening misfire, but the 16-ton lunar module’s take-off section separated as planned in a complex manoeuvre and the ship’s take-off engine fired properly. The lunar module is the type of ship that will ferry two men from an orbit around the moon to the lunar surface and back as early as mid-1969. For its surprising unmanned space debut, the spacecraft was in an orbit around the earth with a robot pilot at the controls. Yesterday’s 6j-hour test was designed to help prove that both the landing and the take-off engines would work in space.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31585, 24 January 1968, Page 13
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152SPACE TEST Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31585, 24 January 1968, Page 13
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