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Saturn IB
- AS-201On the 26th of February 1966, a rocket named AS-201 lifted off from Cape Kennedy. This flight marked the first uncrewed test of an entire production Block I…
- AS-203On the 5th of July 1966, an uncrewed Saturn IB rocket lifted off from Cape Kennedy. This flight carried no command and service module.
- 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-202the 25th of August 1966 marked the launch of AS-202 from Pad 34. This mission served as the third test flight for the Saturn IB rocket.
- 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 IBIn 1959, the Silverstein Committee issued recommendations to develop a new class of launch vehicles. NASA chose the Saturn I for early Earth orbital test…
- S-IVBThe deadline for proposals to build the upper stage of a new rocket was the 29th of February 1960. Eleven companies submitted bids to NASA with hopes of…
- 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–SoyuzOn the 19th of April, 1971, the USSR launched its first piloted orbital space station, Salyut 1. Just months prior, the United States had sent Apollo 14 to…