NASA Saturn I

NASA Saturn I. . The Saturn I was the first American launch vehicle developed solely for space exploration. Taller than a 16-story building, the Saturn I launched 10 tons (9 metric tons) of payload into Earth orbit. First static tested in Huntsville in May of 1961, the Saturn I had 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. Saturn I rockets had two versions of this rocket the Saturn IB- launched Apollo 7 (the first manned Apollo flight) in October 1968 three Skylabs missions in 1974-74 and the U.S. astronauts during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Projects in 1975., Length: 189.9ft (578.9m) , Weight: 1,123,600lbs (509,656kg) , Diameter: 21.4ft (6.52) , Finspan: 40.7ft (12.41m) , Thrust: 1,589,285lbs (7,069,492N) , Payload Capacity: 20,000lbs (9,072kg) , Propellant: , . (stage 1) Liquid oxygen and kerosene , . (stage 2) Liquid oxygen and liquid oxygen , Contractors: , . Rocketdyne Div., North American Aviation, Inc. (first stage propulsion) , . Chrysler Corporation (first stage) , . Pratt and Whitney (second stage propulsion) , . Douglas Aircraft Corporation (second stage), Captions , The Launch of AS-102 (SA-7), the third Block II flight on September 18, 1964. , A Saturn I, Block I (left) compared to the Block II vehicle (right), Hold-down arms on loan from the National Air and Space Museum