Timeline for When lower stages explode, can upper stages just fire and escape?
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| Apr 26, 2023 at 2:43 | comment | added | Mark | @Joshua, according to the Wikipedia article, it was the second ignition of the third stage (to perform the trans-lunar injection) that failed. The SPS engine was used to put the spacecraft into an orbit that would complete some but not all of the mission objectives. | |
| Apr 26, 2023 at 1:42 | comment | added | Joshua | Missed Apollo 6. Third stage failed to ignite. SM engine was used to make orbit. It's kind of like another stage. | |
| Apr 20, 2023 at 23:29 | history | answered | Mark | CC BY-SA 4.0 |