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Launch escape system fired 27 minutes after an aborted launch causing a fire and subsequent explosion when pad workers had already returned to the launch pad. [102] 14 July 1968: Baikonur Cosmodrome, USSR: 1: Soyuz 7K-L1 launch vehicle: Soyuz 7K-L1 No. 8L: An oxygen tank in the Blok D stage exploded while the rocket was being prepared for ...
The largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, the Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; the lead contractors for construction of the rocket were Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM. Fifteen flight-capable vehicles ...
Three variants of the Saturn family which were developed: Saturn I, Saturn IB, and Saturn V. The Saturn family of American rockets was developed by a team of former German rocket engineers and scientists led by Wernher von Braun to launch heavy payloads to Earth orbit and beyond. The Saturn family used liquid hydrogen as fuel in the upper stages.
Saturn V: Kennedy LC-39A: NASA: Skylab: NASA: Low Earth Space Station: 11 July 1979: Successful First American Space Station Last flight of the Saturn V rocket Damaged during launch, but repaired 16 May 16:40 Titan IIIB (24B) Vandenberg SLC-4W: OPS 2093 NRO / US Air Force: Low Earth Reconnaissance: 13 June 1973: Successful 17 May 13:19 Kosmos ...
The Saturn IB [a] (also known as the uprated Saturn I) was an American launch vehicle commissioned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the Apollo program. It uprated the Saturn I by replacing the S-IV second stage (90,000-pound-force (400,000 N), 43,380,000 lb-sec total impulse), with the S-IVB (200,000-pound-force ...
Apollo abort modes were procedures by which the nominal launch of an Apollo spacecraft, either the Saturn IB or Saturn V rocket, could be terminated. The abort of the flight allowed for the rescue of the crew if the rocket failed catastrophically. Depending on how far the flight had progressed, different procedure or modes would be used.
Launch Complex 34 (LC-34) is a deactivated launch site on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. LC-34 and its companion LC-37 to the north were used by NASA from 1961 through 1968 to launch Saturn I and IB rockets as part of the Apollo program .
NASA OSO-3: NASA Low Earth Solar research: 4 April 1982: Successful The spacecraft performed normally until the second onboard tape recorder failed in July 1968. The spacecraft was put in standby condition on 10 November 1969, and became inoperable shortly thereafter. 10 March 11:30 Proton-K / Blok D: Pad 81/23, Baikonur: MOM: Kosmos 146 (L1P 2 ...