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Spacecraft launched by Saturn rockets

  • 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…
  • Lunar Module EagleThe spacecraft known as LM-5 carried the name Eagle. This choice appeared on the mission insignia for Apollo 11. A bald eagle featured prominently in that…
  • 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.
  • Apollo 11Apollo 11, launched on the 16th of July 1969, carried three astronauts toward a destination no human being had ever reached.
  • Apollo 12Apollo 12 launched into a sky that had no business sending anyone to the Moon. On the 14th of November 1969, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, rain fell…
  • 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…
  • Apollo 17Apollo 17 launched at 12:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on the 7th of December 1972, blazing into the night sky above Florida.
  • Apollo 15Apollo 15 launched on the 26th of July 1971, and from the moment it left the ground, it was a different kind of Moon mission.
  • Apollo 14Apollo 14 launched on the 31st of January 1971, carrying three astronauts on a mission that no one in the program could afford to lose.
  • Apollo command and service moduleNorth American Aviation received the initial Apollo contract on the 28th of November 1961. At that time, engineers assumed lunar landings would occur via…
  • Apollo 8On the 4th of October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. This small metal sphere changed everything for the United States.
  • 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 10Apollo 10 came within 7.8 nautical miles of the Moon's surface in May 1969 and then turned back. The crew had a working spacecraft, they had the training…
  • 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 16Apollo 16 launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the 16th of April, 1972, carrying three men toward a highland plain that scientists were certain…
  • Apollo Lunar ModuleThe Apollo Lunar Module is the only crewed vehicle in history to land somewhere beyond Earth. That fact alone is worth sitting with.
  • Command module ColumbiaJulian Scheer, NASA assistant administrator of public affairs during the Apollo program, suggested a name for the spacecraft.
  • Apollo 4Apollo 4 announced itself with a sound that one Columbia University scientist described as one of the loudest noises, natural or artificial, in all of human…
  • Apollo 9Apollo 9 launched on the 3rd of March 1969, carrying three men into low Earth orbit aboard the first complete Apollo spacecraft ever flown.
  • 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.
  • Apollo 6Apollo 6 launched from Kennedy Space Center on the 4th of April 1968, at precisely 7:00:01 in the morning Eastern time. That same day, Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Apollo (spacecraft)The Apollo spacecraft was composed of three parts designed to accomplish the American Apollo program's goal of landing astronauts on the Moon by the end of…
  • Apollo 13Apollo 13 launched from Kennedy Space Center on the 11th of April, 1970, carrying three astronauts toward what should have been humanity's third walk on the…
  • Pegasus (satellite)The Pegasus Project began on the 16th of February 1965 when a NASA Saturn I rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral. This launch marked the first time three…
  • AS-101The Saturn I launch vehicle carried its first boilerplate Apollo spacecraft into low Earth orbit on the 28th of May 1964.
  • 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…
  • 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.