saXX_v_bw_o_n (unnumbered NASA-Marshall Photo, hand dated 11-14-61, M61-383 eq, NASA SAT. 1-3 eq)
“The first flight configuration of the giant Saturn C-1 rocket is seen in the Fabrication and Assembly Engineering Division at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Huntsville, Ala. Dwarfed by the 180-foot C-1 are a Juno II rocket (left rear) and a Mercury-Redstone rocket (front foreground). The C-1 will be capable of placing about 10 tons into low earth orbit.”
An iconic photo.
An extract from the Space Launch Report website pertaining to SA-1:
WHICH OF COURSE/UNFORTUNATELY HAS GONE POOF.
“...Trial horizontal assembly of complete vehicle at MSFC in February 1961."
At:
www.spacelaunchreport.com/satstg.html
So...it must indeed be SA-1? They wouldn’t "trial horizontally assemble" a subsequent vehicle, right?
saXX_v_bw_o_n (unnumbered NASA-Marshall Photo, hand dated 11-14-61, M61-383 eq, NASA SAT. 1-3 eq)
“The first flight configuration of the giant Saturn C-1 rocket is seen in the Fabrication and Assembly Engineering Division at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Huntsville, Ala. Dwarfed by the 180-foot C-1 are a Juno II rocket (left rear) and a Mercury-Redstone rocket (front foreground). The C-1 will be capable of placing about 10 tons into low earth orbit.”
An iconic photo.
An extract from the Space Launch Report website pertaining to SA-1:
WHICH OF COURSE/UNFORTUNATELY HAS GONE POOF.
“...Trial horizontal assembly of complete vehicle at MSFC in February 1961."
At:
www.spacelaunchreport.com/satstg.html
So...it must indeed be SA-1? They wouldn’t "trial horizontally assemble" a subsequent vehicle, right?