The Saturn I was a rocket designed as the United States' first medium lift launch vehicle for up to 20,000-pound low Earth orbit payloads. Its development was taken over from the Advanced Research Pro
The first Saturn I was launched October 27, 1961.
A 1/20th-scale model of first-stage Saturn is prepared for testing in the 16-foot transonic wind tunnel at Arnold Air Force Base in the early 1960s
Von Braun, with JFK pointing at Saturn I at Cape Canaveral on 16 November 1963, weeks prior to its launch
A diagram of the S-I first stage of the Saturn I
The S-IV was the second stage of the Saturn I rocket used by NASA for early flights in the Apollo program.
Schematics of the S-IV