[Nowhere Man]

That’s one book I have not read, so your information may be more correct than mine. It obviously goes back aways because it is using the “old” numbering system for the manned missions, Apollo 1, 2, etc. After the fire, the unmanned missions filled in the numbering gap between Apollo 1 (the one that burned) and Apollo 7, the eventual first manned mission.

Apollo 4 was the first test of the Saturn V, an unmanned launch on November 9th, 1967. My grandfather died the same day in Florida and my uncle had to handle the situation until my father could get down there. It was a challenge for my uncle since he worked for NASA and could not get away from the mission until it was done.

[chimera]

I know they kept the Apollo 1 designation as a memorial to the lost crew, and Apollos 4 and 6 were unmanned tests of the Saturn 5. Apollo 5 was the unmanned test of the LM in Earth orbit. But what flights were Apollos 2 and 3?