Apollo-LES
February 21, 2000 to March 30, 2004
Flight: April 7, 2002

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What began as a small idea inspired by a single spread of Kodachromes in an old issue of National Geographic would eventually, two years later, become the most extensive, most ambitious, most carefully-documented, and longest-running (before a flight) rocket program undertaken by the WAEC. A voluminous amount of data was collected and recorded during the planning and construction of this single rocket, and thus the official WAEC account must be separated into several different chapters, unlike those of other WAEC designs.

The Idea and the History

Data and Plans

Building the Vehicle

Setbacks and Revisions

Flight


Apollo-LES Specifications

Subject: Apollo-LES Pad Abort Test #1, Boilerplate #6, November 7, 1963
Length: 40 cm
Diameter: 11 cm
Engine mount: 18 mm
Recovery: parachute
Number of flights: 1
Dates: February 21, 2000 to March 30, 2004
Days under construction: 1499


Apollo-LES Official WAEC Plans


Page 1:
Cover

Page 2:
Overall view

Page 3:
Heatshield pattern

Page 4:
BPC pattern

Page 5:
CM assembly

Page 6:
LES superstructure

Page 7:
LES superstructure assembly

Page 8:
LES motor

Page 9:
Scale paint pattern

Page 10:
LES motor paint pattern

Page 11:
1/72 scale drawing

Page 12:
Resources and acronyms


Apollo-LES Flight Log

Date: Engine Used: Remarks:
April 7, 2002 A8-3 Rocket rose stably to a minimal altitude, then crashed on ground and broke apart because of ejection charge. Only flight of Apollo-LES prototype.
All materials herein copyright 2000-2007 by Willy Logan.
willy@wilhelm-aerospace.org