Saturn I Launch at Launch Complex 34

Saturn I Launch at Launch Complex 34

Saturn I Launch

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Fla.)

Cape Canaveral (Fla.)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.)

NASA

The second test flight of the Saturn I (SA-2) rocket was launched successfully not long after this photograph was taken at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Saturn I rocket was designed to launch payloads into low Earth orbit and was the most powerful launch vehicle used by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to date. SA-2 was a suborbital flight which released a test payload of 30,000 gallons of water in the upper atmosphere, in order to examine the effects of radio transmissions and local weather. Ten Saturn I rockets were flown until the model was replaced by the Saturn IB.

Original black and white photographic print, April 25, 1962: Larry Summers Collection.

1962-04-25

Digital reproduction of original black and white photographic print, April 25, 1962.

Florida Space Coast History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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Launch Complex 34, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida

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Cepero, Laura

"John F. Kennedy Space Center - Unmanned Saturn 2 (SA-2)." 2015. John F. Kennedy Space Center. Accessed September 25. http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/sa-2/sa-2.htm.

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