Launch vehicle · NASA
Saturn I
RocketsMedium-lift
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Saturn Apollo Program
The Saturn project was approved on January 18, 1960 as a program of the highest national priority.
1961
NASA/Marshall · NASA media (public domain)
Overview
NASA's first heavy-lift rocket and the first designed for spaceflight rather than as a missile; it flight-tested Apollo hardware and clustered eight engines in its first stage.
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- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
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