In total, NASA launched nine Saturn IB rockets between 1966 and 1975, out of the 14 such vehicles that were at least partially assembled. Today, parts from only two of the unused rockets still exist.

The March 1975 rollout of this final Saturn IB happened relatively early in the life of NASA's cavernous VAB, which the agency finished building less than a decade previously, in 1966. In July ...

By and large, the Saturn I launches were designated “SA” for Saturn-Apollo (showing they were Saturn hardware tests first and Apollo hardware tests second) followed by a sequential number 1 through 10 ...

On August 25th, 1966, an Apollo Command Module was launched aboard a Saturn IB rocket in mission AS-202. This mission was intended to immediately precede the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission, the AS-202 … ...

On Oct. 11, 1968, three men boarded NASA's Saturn IB and had what the agency described as a "perfect launch" into space in the first crewed Apollo mission. On Tuesday, Walter Cunningham – the ...

Object Details Summary This is a model of the test stand for the Saturn IB rocket, which stood at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center beginning in 1965. The test stand ensured the performance of the H ...