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McDivitt later said that the engine had come on abruptly, but with the tremendous mass, acceleration was very slow – it took the whole 5 seconds to add 11 meters per second to the speed.
Example of the CM’s docking probe being removed from the inside to allow access to the LM through the tunnel
Probe and drogue operations
Schweickart and McDivitt inside the LM
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A few seconds after liftoff, a fin-vane at the base of the booster stuck and started the 13-meter-tall spacecraft-booster combination spinning like a bullet. Twenty-six seconds into the flight the vehicle started coming apart. The abort-sensing system signaled the launch escape tower rocket to fire and pull the spacecraft away…
White Sands New Mexico
Launch Pad Abort Test
Little Joe II, A-001 with BP-12
Little Joe II Flight Profile
Little Joe II Real Emergency.
Little Joe II On the Pad
Little Joe Pad Abort Test
A-001 Launch
Little Joe II A-002
