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{{distinguish|text=[[Pad Abort 1]], a 2010 Orion test flight}}
{{Infobox spaceflight<!--technically not a spaceflight, but template seems best fit for this article-->
| name = Pad Abort Test 1
| image = Image:Pad abort test 1.jpg
| image_caption = Pad Abort Test 1 launch.
| insignia = Apollo program.svg
|'''Mission Name:'''||Pad Abort Test 1▼
|}▼
| mission_type = Abort test
'''Pad Abort Test 1''' was the first abort test of the [[Apollo program|Apollo]] spacecraft on [[November 7]], [[1963]].▼
| operator = [[NASA]]
| mission_duration = 2 minutes, 45.1 seconds
| distance_travelled = {{convert|2.51|km|mi|sp=us}}
| suborbital_apogee = {{convert|2.82|km|mi|sp=us}}
| spacecraft = [[Apollo (spacecraft)|Apollo]] BP-06
==Objectives==▼
| manufacturer =
Pad Abort Test 1 was a mission to investigate the effects on the Apollo spacecraft during an abort from the pad. The [[Apollo_spacecraft#Launch_Escape_System_.28LES.29|launch escape system]] (LES) had to be capable of pulling the spacecraft away from a possibly exploding rocket while it sat on the pad. The LES then had to gain enough altitude to allow the command module's parachutes to open, preferably with the spacecraft over water and not land.▼
| launch_mass =
| landing_mass =
| launch_date = {{start-date|November 7, 1963, 16:00:01|timezone=yes}} UTC
The flight featured a production model LES and a [[Boilerplate (rocketry)|boilerplate]] (BP-6) Apollo spacecraft, the first mission to feature one. The spacecraft carried no instruments for measuring structural loads as the capsule's boilerplate structure did not represent that of a real spacecraft.▼
| launch_rocket = [[Apollo (spacecraft)#Launch Escape System (LES)|Apollo LES]]
| launch_site = [[White Sands Missile Range|White Sands]] [[White Sands Launch Complex 36|LC-36]]
| landing_date = {{end-date|November 7, 1963, 16:02:45|timezone=yes}} UTC
==Flight==▼
| landing_site =
| previous_mission = [[Little Joe II Qualification Test Vehicle|QTV]]
| next_mission = [[A-001]]
| programme = [[Apollo program|Project Apollo]]<br/><small>Abort tests</small>
▲'''Pad Abort Test 1''' was the first [[pad abort test|abort test]] of the [[Apollo
On [[November 7]], [[1963]], an abort signal was sent to the LES at 09:00:01 local time. This initiated a sequence in which the main solid rockets fired to move the spacecraft and smaller attitude rockets fired so that the spacecraft moved laterally (at [[Cape Canaveral]] this lateral movement would be toward the [[ocean]]).▼
▲==Objectives==
The LES separated after fifteen seconds with the spacecraft now on a [[Ballistics|ballistic]] [[trajectory]]. The parachute system worked perfectly with the drogue chute stabilizing the spacecraft, followed by the three main parachutes that slowed the descent to a leisurely 26 kilometers per hour.▼
▲Pad Abort Test 1 was a mission to investigate the effects on the Apollo spacecraft during an abort from the pad. The [[
▲The flight featured a production model LES and a [[Boilerplate (
The only problems found with the flight were that the LES rockets had left a [[soot]] deposit on the spacecraft exterior and the stability of the spacecraft was less than predicted.▼
▲==Flight==
▲On
▲The LES separated after
▲The only problems found with the flight were that the LES rockets
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==Gallery==
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==References==
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* [http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4009/cover.htm The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209084600/http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4009/cover.htm |date=2017-12-09 }}
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{{Apollo program| before=[[SA-5 (Apollo)|SA-4]]| after=[[SA-5 (Apollo)|SA-5]]}}
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[[Category:Apollo program]]
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[[Category:Test spaceflights]]
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