Saturn IB

Overview

A NASA medium-lift launch vehicle used for early Apollo Earth-orbit tests, the Skylab crews, and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.

Knowledge connections

• Operated byNASA
• Member of familySaturn
• Part of programApollo program
• Launched fromSpace Launch Complex 37B
• Powered byJ-2

Sources

The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.

• NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.

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