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The mating of the AS-202 Command Module (CSM-011) and Saturn LEM Adapter at the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

"Apollo-Saturn 202 mission will verify performance of the Saturn IB, the Apollo spacecraft command service module systems and the ablative heat shield. Launching will be from Complex 34, Cape Kennedy, Florida and will be the third launching in NASA’s S-IB series.”

Date: June 1966

AS-202 Saturn IB (CSM-011/SA-202) lifts off from Launch Complex (LC-34),Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 12:15 p.m. The mission was a step toward qualifying the Apollo Command and Service Modules (CSM)'s and the uprated Saturn I launch vehicle for manned flight."Primary mission objectives included the confirmation of projected launch loads, demonstration of spacecraft component separation, and verification of heat shield adequacy at high reentry rates."

Note: this mission was retroactively designated Apollo 3.

Commemorative mission patch created by Retrorocket Emblem (source)

Date: August 25, 1966

AS-202 mission profile.

Date: August 25, 1966

"Workers at Launch Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, stack the AS-202 Apollo spacecraft (CSM-011) atop the Saturn IB (SA-202) rocket."

Date: July 2, 1966