NASA Saturn I

The Saturn I was the first American launch vehicle developed solely for space exploration. Taller than a 16-story building, it launched 10 tons of payload into Earth orbit. First static tested in Huntsville in May of 1961, it achieved a 100 percent success rate, unprecedented for its time. A Saturn I launched the first unmanned Apollo spacecraft in May 1964, and in 1965 launched three Pegasus satellites designed to detect micrometeorids in space. Two versions of this rocket, the Saturn IB, launched Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo flight, in October 1968, three Skylab missions in 1973-74, and the U.S. astronauts during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Projects in 1975.

Huntsville, Alabama · United States