Saturn-Apollo 5 (SA-5) was the first launch of the Block II Saturn I rocket and was part of the Apollo program. In 1963, President Kennedy identified this...
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Saturn-Apollo 4 (SA-4) was the fourth launch of a Saturn I launch vehicle and the last of the initial test phase of the first stage. It was part of the...
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Saturn-Apollo 1 (SA-1) was the first flight of the Saturn I space launch vehicle, the first in the Saturn family, and first mission of the American Apollo...
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powerful position. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy identified the Saturn I SA-5 launch as being the point where US lift capability would surpass the...
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Saturn V which carried the first men to landings on the Moon in the Apollo program. President John F. Kennedy identified the Saturn I, and the SA-5 launch...
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C-5 was confirmed as NASA's choice for the Apollo program in early 1962, and was named the Saturn V. The C-1 became the Saturn I and C-1B became Saturn...
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its debut with SA-5, the first Saturn I Block II launch. The first version of the IU was 154 inches (3.9 m) in diameter and 58 inches (1.5 m) high, and...
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List of Apollo missions (section Saturn I)
which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. The program used the Saturn IB and Saturn V launch vehicles to lift the Command/Service Module (CSM) and Lunar...
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Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 37 (section Saturn)
support the Saturn I program in 1963. The complex consists of two launch pads. LC-37A has never been used, but LC-37B launched uncrewed Saturn I flights (1964...
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The Saturn IB(also known as the uprated Saturn I) was an American launch vehicle commissioned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)...
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The Saturn V dynamic test vehicle, designated SA-500D, is a prototype Saturn V rocket used by NASA to test the performance of the rocket when vibrated...
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Canceled Apollo missions (section Skylab 5)
of partially equipped Block I Command/Service Modules (CSM) using the Saturn I launch vehicle, designated SA-11 through SA-14, in 1965 and 1966. However...
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The S-I was the first stage of the Saturn I rocket used by NASA for the Apollo program. The S-I stage was powered by eight H-1 rocket engines burning...
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AS-104 (redirect from A-104 (SA-8))
Pegasus micrometeoroid detection satellite. It was launched by SA-8, the ninth Saturn I carrier rocket. The primary mission objective was to demonstrate...
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AS-101 (redirect from SA-6 (Apollo))
AS-101 (also designated SA-6) was the sixth flight of the Saturn I launch vehicle, which carried the first boilerplate Apollo spacecraft into low Earth...
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first Saturn I, Block I, mission SA-1, lofted a dummy upper stage on a suborbital trajectory into the Atlantic. The subsequent three Saturn I launches...
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AS-103 (redirect from A-103 (SA-9))
micrometeoroid detection satellite. Also known as SA-9, it was the third operational launch of a two-stage Saturn I launch vehicle. Of 12 flight objectives assigned...
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January 1964 (section January 5, 1964 (Sunday))
launch a rocket competitive with those of the Soviet Union, as the Saturn I SA-5 placed a satellite weighing 37,700 pounds (17,100 kg) into orbit, the...
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orbital launch systems Apollo program Saturn I Saturn IB Saturn V Skylab Apollo Applications Program S-IC S-II Saturn I SA-1 Johnson, Kurt P.; Holl, Richard...
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S-IVB (redirect from Saturn S-IVB)
S-IVB evolved from the upper stage of the Saturn I rocket (the S-IV) and was the first stage of the Saturn V to be designed. The S-IV used a cluster of...
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Apollo program (section Saturn I)
vehicle combination series numbers: AS-10x for Saturn I, AS-20x for Saturn IB, and AS-50x for Saturn V (compare Mercury-Redstone 3, Mercury-Atlas 6)...
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ASC-15 (section ASC-15 for Saturn I)
circuits in a precisely timed sequence. The ASC-15 was first flown on SA-5, the first Saturn I Block II vehicle and the first to achieve orbit. It was a passenger...
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Skylab (redirect from Saturn V Workshop)
have been used for Skylab 5 (which would have been the fourth crewed Skylab mission), but this was cancelled and the SA-209 Saturn IB rocket was put on display...
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AS-202 (category Spacecraft launched by Saturn rockets)
the Block I spacecraft and Saturn IB ready to carry men into orbit on the next mission, AS-204. AS-202 was the third test flight of the Saturn IB, because...
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Apollo 4 (category Spacecraft launched by Saturn rockets)
Apollo 4 (November 9, 1967), also known as SA-501, was the uncrewed first test flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the rocket that eventually took astronauts...
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Project Highwater (category Saturn I)
an experiment carried out as part of two of the test flights of NASA's Saturn I launch vehicle (using battleship upper stages), successfully launched into...
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stage on early launches of the Saturn I. Convair delivered two S-V stages in February 1961 with one being flown on SA-1 attached to an also inert S-IV...
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versus the usual 32.5 degrees). Ten F-1 engines were installed on two production Saturn Vs that never flew. The first stage from SA-514 is on display at...
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