Earl Scruggs was an actor
AS-203 -LRB- or SA-203 -RRB- was an unmanned flight of the Saturn IB rocket on July 5 , 1966 .. Saturn IB. Saturn IB. It carried no Apollo Command / Service Module spacecraft , as its purpose was to verify the design of the S-IVB rocket stage restart capability that would later be used in the Apollo program to boost astronauts from Earth orbit to a trajectory towards the Moon .. Apollo program. Apollo program. Apollo Command / Service Module. Apollo Command / Service Module. S-IVB. S-IVB. It successfully achieved its objectives , but the stage was inadvertently destroyed after four orbits .