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Saturn I
- S-IThe S-I stage carried eight H-1 rocket engines burning RP-1 fuel with liquid oxygen as oxidizer. A central Jupiter tank held the liquid oxygen while eight…
- AS-105Engineers constructed the BP-9A boilerplate spacecraft to mimic the weight and shape of a real Apollo command module. This dummy vessel lacked life support…
- S-IVThe S-IV stage carried six RL-10A-3 engines into the sky. Each engine provided 150,000 pounds of thrust. Together they generated a total force of about…
- Saturn IWernher von Braun's team at the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency began studying a heavy-lift vehicle in April 1957. They calculated that a rocket with the…
- AS-101The Saturn I launch vehicle carried its first boilerplate Apollo spacecraft into low Earth orbit on the 28th of May 1964.
- Saturn I SA-1The Saturn I SA-1 rocket stood three times taller than the Juno I vehicle that had launched Explorer 1 into orbit in 1958.