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Apollo 5 Certified the Lunar Module Safe for Astronauts

Apollo 5 Certified the Lunar Module Safe for Astronauts

The year 1967 began with the tragic loss of the Apollo 1 crew, but ended with the successful launch of the first Saturn V rocket. NASA hoped to make it two successes in a row with the first unmanned flight of the lunar module, or LM, the spacecraft designed to land Americans on the Moon before the end of the decade.