On August 25th, 1966, an Apollo Command Module was launched aboard a Saturn IB rocket in mission AS-202. This mission was intended to immediately precede the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission ...

Saturn 1B Rockets have helped power five different man-spaced flights including Apollo 7, which was America’s return to space after the Apollo 1 tragedy with the fire on the launchpad ...

Since Apollo 7 flew only in low Earth orbit and lacked a Lunar Module, it was launched with a Saturn IB booster. It was the ...

The last astronauts to lift off from the Air Force side were the Apollo 7 crew on a Saturn IB from LC-34 in October 1968. The Moon landing challenge immediately confronted NASA, however ...

[Fran] has been researching the Saturn V Launch Vehicle Digital Computer – the computer that flew all the Apollo flights into orbit and onwards towards the moon – for a while now. Even though ...

Personnel within the Launch Control Center watch the Apollo 11 liftoff. The LCC is located 3.5 miles from the launch pad. The Saturn V rocket climbs into orbit.