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The C-5 was confirmed as NASA's choice for the Apollo program in early 1962, and was named the Saturn V. [31] [32] The C-1 became the Saturn I and C-1B became Saturn IB. [32] Von Braun headed a team at the MSFC to build a vehicle capable of launching a crewed spacecraft to the Moon. [ 33 ]
Saturn V SA-502 April 4, 1968, 16:12 GMT Launch Complex 39A. Second flight of Saturn V; severe "pogo" vibrations caused two second-stage engines to shut down prematurely, and third stage restart to fail. SM engine used to achieve high-speed re-entry, though less than Apollo 4. NASA identified vibration fixes and declared Saturn V man-rated. [1 ...
It was the first flight of the first and second stages of the Saturn V (the S-IVB stage had flown on the Saturn IB launch vehicles), the first launch of the complete Saturn V, the first restart of the S-IVB in orbital flight, the first liftoff from Complex 39, the first flight test of the Block II command module heatshield, the first flight of ...
In 1963, President John F. Kennedy identified the Saturn I SA-5 launch as being the point where US lift capability would surpass the Soviets, ...
The final launch of Saturn V in 1973 placed Skylab, a 77-tonne (170,000 lb) payload, into LEO. The Energia launcher was designed by the Soviet Union to launch up to 105 t (231,000 lb) to low Earth orbit. [ 8 ]
The first launch from Launch Complex 39 came in 1967 with the first Saturn V launch, which carried the uncrewed Apollo 4 spacecraft. The second uncrewed launch, Apollo 6 , also used Pad 39A. With the exception of Apollo 10 , which used Pad 39B (due to the "all-up" testing resulting in a 2-month turnaround period), all crewed Apollo-Saturn V ...
Boeing, Saturn V Launch Vehicle Guidance Equations, SA-504, 15 July 1967; Haeussermann, Walter (July 1970). Description and Performance Of The Saturn Launch Vehicle's Navigation, Guidance And Control System (PDF). NASA TN D-5869. NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center, Saturn V Flight Manual SA-503, 1 November 1968
A Saturn V is carried atop the ML-1 in the lead-up to Apollo 11. The first launch from the Mobile Launcher Platform-3 (MLP-3) (formerly called the Mobile Launcher-1 or ML-1) was the maiden flight of the Saturn V, and the first launch from LC-39, Apollo 4. Following this, it was used for two crewed Apollo launches: Apollo 8 and Apollo 11.