AS-102

AS-102 (also designated SA-7) was the seventh flight of the Saturn I launch vehicle, which carried the boilerplate Apollo spacecraft BP-15 into low Earth orbit.

The spacecraft and its upper stage completed 59 orbits before reentering the atmosphere and crashing in the Indian Ocean on September 22, 1964.

[3]: 6 Launch was on 18 September from Cape Kennedy, Florida just before noon local time.

They had landed downrange of the expected area, where Hurricane Gladys forestalled a continued search.

[3]: 3 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Apollo Command Module boiler plate #15 checked out prior to SA-7 launch on September 18, 1964