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Saturn IB
- AS-201AS-201 lifted off from Pad 34 on the 26th of February 1966, and it was over in 37 minutes. The spacecraft splashed down in the south Atlantic Ocean, and…
- AS-203AS-203 launched from Pad 37B at Cape Kennedy on the 5th of July 1966, carrying no astronauts and no spacecraft. In its place sat an aerodynamic nose cone…
- S-IBThe S-IB stage ignited eight Rocketdyne H-1 engines and burned for nearly two and a half minutes before dropping away from the rest of the rocket.
- Apollo 7Apollo 7 launched on the 11th of October, 1968, the first American spacecraft to carry a crew in nearly two years. The men inside were not breaking new…
- AS-202AS-202 launched from Pad 34 on the 25th of August 1966, carrying no crew and making no claim to glory on its own terms. What it carried instead was a…
- Apollo 1Apollo 1 never left the ground. On the 27th of January, 1967, three astronauts -- Command Pilot Gus Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B.
- Apollo 5Apollo 5, launched on the 22nd of January 1968, sent a spacecraft to orbit with no crew aboard and no windows visible through its hull.
- Saturn IBThe Saturn IB carried an odd nickname: engineers called its first stage Cluster's Last Stand. NASA built this launch vehicle for the Apollo program as an…
- S-IVBThe S-IVB, pronounced "S-four-B," is the rocket stage that sent human beings to the Moon. Built by the Douglas Aircraft Company and powered by a single J-2…
- SkylabSkylab, America's first space station, was not built from scratch. It was built from a leftover rocket stage, a repurposed piece of a Saturn V that once…
- Apollo–SoyuzApollo-Soyuz brought together the two most powerful space programs on Earth for the first time in July 1975. On the 17th of July, an American spacecraft and…