"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."
Photograph from the Larry Summers Collection.
Date: April 25, 1962
"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