Saturn I - SA-4

Various high-resolution NASA photos from transparencies. Images are 1200 x 900 pixels so if you have a slow connection there will be a delay while these approx 500K jpg files download.

Tidbits
Why is this collection titled Saturn Apollo ("Saturn" first) when the Saturn V Collection is called Apollo Saturn? Well, it was the way NASA called them. The early Saturns were not really "Apollo" vehicles but could be used to loft Apollo components...their real purpose was to develop the Saturn concept, hence the emphasis on Saturn. By the time the Saturn V came around, it was exclusively an Apollo program vehicle, hence the emphasis on Apollo.

All of the pre-Block II Saturn 1 vehicles (SA-1 through SA-4) were single stage vehicles utilizing a rather complex boat tail assembly at the aft end. The vehicle also had no fins. The SA-4 was the transition vehicle to the Block II versions in that it utilized an "upper stage" with most of the shape and attachments that would be used on the Block II vehicles.

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