The Explorers' Club, № MXXIX

Operation AXIOM: Destination Moon—The 60th Anniversary of AS-101
28 May-1 June 1964: AS-101 (Saturn I S.A.-6) lifted off from Florida's Cape Kennedy A.F.S., the first flight of a boilerplate Apollo Command & Service Module & Launch Escape System; the № 8 H-1 engine shut down 116 seconds into the flight & fuel was re-routed to the other seven engines, which burned longer to compensate; data transmission ceased after four orbits, due to battery exhaustion.

Commentary: The test shutdown of an H-1 engine during Saturn-Apollo 4 (March 1963) bore fruit during AS-101, when the engine shutdown was unexpected, but the system responded without missing a beat.

Semper exploro.