A Field Guide to American Spacecraft

		Apollo
		Boilerplate
		BP-12
		A-001 LJ II
		Columbia Memorial Space Science Center, Downey, CA

		This boilerplate was misidentified as BP-6 when turned over to the good folks at the Aerospace Legacy Foundation. It was only aftr the hatch was freed and the builders plate was located that this was determined to be BP-12, the first Apollo capsule launched by a Little Joe II. Read more of this discover at collectSpace.
Image by: Aerospace Legacy Foundation Date: March 7, 2007		Visit the Aerospace Legacy Foundation

Historical Image
"BP-6 was tested 3 or 4 times. Once on Pad Abort -1 in Nov.7, 1963, and 2-3 times in parachute tests in 1964-65. It was then given by North American to the local union hall." "The capsule was given to the city of Downey in Feb. 07 by the former owners, the AFL-CIO union hall where it had stood for 40 years in Downey, California. It is planned that it be restored and will stand in front of the new 'Columbia Memorial Space Science learning center' in the fall of 08." Jim Busby Aerospace Legacy Foundation
	BP-6 Test PA-1 Image by: NASA

A Field Guide to American Spacecraft
by Jim Gerard
www.americanspacecraft.com