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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Apollo program (section Saturn IB)
to use the uprated Saturn IB for all crewed Earth orbital flights. The Saturn IB was an upgraded version of the Saturn I. The S-IB first stage increased...
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List of Apollo missions (section Saturn IB)
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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and flown: the medium-lift Saturn I, the heavy-lift Saturn IB, and the super heavy-lift Saturn V. Von Braun proposed the Saturn name in October 1958 as a...
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LC-37 to the north were used by NASA from 1961 through 1968 to launch Saturn I and IB rockets as part of the Apollo program. It was the site of the Apollo...
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Saturn IB-A was a proposed Saturn I family variant but was never built. It was to be a three-stage rocket virtually identical in layout to the Saturn...
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launch as a "dry workshop" (assembled on the ground in an unused S-IVB Saturn IB second stage). The next two missions, Apollos 18 and 19, were later canceled...
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launch phase aerodynamics. Ten Saturn I rockets were flown before it was replaced by the heavy lift derivative Saturn IB, which used a larger, higher total...
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Apollo program in early 1962, and was named the Saturn V. The C-1 became the Saturn I and C-1B became Saturn IB. Von Braun headed a team at the MSFC to build...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saturn S-IB. The S-IB stage was the first stage of the Saturn IB launch vehicle, which was used for Earth orbital...
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Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (redirect from Apollo/Saturn V Center)
These are mounted upright whereas the largest rocket, a Saturn IB, is mounted on its side. Saturn IB rockets launched Apollo Command/Service Modules into...
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The Saturn V instrument unit is a ring-shaped structure fitted to the top of the Saturn V rocket's third stage (S-IVB) and the Saturn IB's second stage...
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S-IVB (redirect from Saturn S-IVB)
S-IVB (pronounced "S-four-B") was the third stage on the Saturn V and second stage on the Saturn IB launch vehicles. Built by the Douglas Aircraft Company...
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H-1c - Saturn IB-A, IB-B H-1b - Saturn B-1, Saturn A-2, Saturn IB, Saturn IB-C, Saturn IB-CE, Saturn IB-D, Saturn INT-11, Saturn INT-12, Saturn INT-13...
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only Saturn V to launch from the pad; SA-505, used to launch the Apollo 10 mission. After the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, Pad 39B was used for Saturn IB launches...
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The proposed Saturn IB-B was to be essentially an uprated Saturn IB using the new MS-IVB-2 upper stage, using the HG-3 engine, developed from the S-IVB...
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Apollo 1 (category Saturn IB)
development and uncrewed testing of the lunar module (LM) and Saturn V rocket continued. The Saturn IB launch vehicle for Apollo 1, AS-204, was used for the first...
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Skylab (redirect from Saturn V Workshop)
Studies generally looked at platforms launched by the Saturn V, followed up by crews launched on Saturn IB using an Apollo command and service module, or a...
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the Saturn V shared some components with the Saturn IB, some of the components for SA-500D were initially used for dynamic testing with the Saturn IB stack...
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Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 37 (section Saturn)
uncrewed Saturn I flights (1964 to 1965) and was modified and launched two Saturn IB flights (1966 to 1968), including the first (uncrewed) test of the Apollo...
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Apollo 4 (category Spacecraft launched by Saturn rockets)
by Saturn IB flights would be valid for those to be launched by the Saturn V. Both the Saturn IB and the Saturn V would use a S-IVB, though the IB would...
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Apollo abort modes (section Mode IB (one bravo))
by which the nominal launch of an Apollo spacecraft, either the Saturn IB or Saturn V rocket, could be terminated. The abort of the flight allowed for...
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Saturn C-3 launch vehicle in 1965 created a large payload gap (LEO) between the Saturn IB's 21,000 kg (46,000 lb) capacity and the three-stage Saturn...
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Apollo 5 (category Saturn IB)
(LM) that would later carry astronauts to the surface of the Moon. The Saturn IB rocket bearing the LM lifted off from Cape Kennedy on January 22, 1968...
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the Saturn IB-C was simply designed as an orbital launch vehicle like the original Saturn IB. The booster would consist of an ordinary Saturn IB with...
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Rocketdyne J-2, was a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine used on NASA's Saturn IB and Saturn V launch vehicles. Built in the United States by Rocketdyne, the...
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Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (redirect from LVDC (Saturn))
to the S-IVB stage of the Saturn V and Saturn IB rockets. The LVDC also supported pre- and post-launch checkout of the Saturn hardware. It was used in...
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Rocketdyne H-1 (section Saturn and H-1)
RP-1. The H-1 was developed for use in the S-I and S-IB first stages of the Saturn I and Saturn IB rockets, respectively, where it was used in clusters...
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The Saturn IB-CE rocket was a variant of the Saturn IB rocket studied in 1965 by Douglas. However unlike the Saturn IB the Saturn IB-CE was to be a three-stage...
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