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Saturn-Apollo 1 (SA-1) was the first flight of the Saturn I space launch vehicle, the first in the Saturn family, and first mission of the American Apollo program. The rocket was launched on October 27, 1961, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine-and-a-half times that of Earth. [26] [27] It has only one-eighth the average density of Earth, but is over 95 times more massive.
Oct 29, 2013 · Saturn I, SA-1 Launch. NASA. Oct 29, 2013. Image Article. On October 27, 1961, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the Nation marked a high point in the 3-year-old Saturn development program when the first Saturn vehicle flew a flawless 215-mile ballistic trajectory from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Oct 26, 2021 · The Saturn SA-1 flight was the first of 32 successful Saturn rocket launches —10 Saturn Is, 9 Saturn IBs, and 13 Saturn Vs — between 1961 and 1973. To this day, the Saturn remains the only family of rockets to achieve a 100 percent success rate.
Oct 26, 2016 · This week in 1961, marked a high point in the 3-year-old Saturn development program, as the first Saturn I vehicle, SA-1, flew a flawless 215-mile ballistic trajectory from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The 162-foot-tall rocket weighed 925,000 pounds and employed a dummy second stage.
Oct 26, 2021 · The Saturn SA-1 flight was the first of 32 successful Saturn rocket launches —10 Saturn Is, 9 Saturn IBs, and 13 Saturn Vs — between 1961 and 1973. To this day, the Saturn remains the only family of rockets to achieve a 100% success rate.
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