#saturn 1b

[stone-cold-groove]

Dr. Wernher von Braun and the Saturn 1B launch vehicle - 1964.

[awake-for-a-lifetime]

the silly

[astronotmovie]

The Saturn 1B rocket & Apollo Command & Service Modules sit on the launch pad in preparation for launch of America’s first Space Station, Skylab. It was occupied by 3 crews of astronauts (Skylab 2, 3 & 4) for a total of 24 weeks between May 1973 & Feb 1974. Skylab spent 2,249 days in orbit & orbited 🌍 15x per day. Its orbit gradually decayed until 1979 when it came crashing down to Earth above Western Australia & the Indian Ocean. The Space Shuttle wasn’t ready until 1981 & so was unable to boost Skylab’s orbit in the meantime. The next space station was the @iss launched in 1998!

[humanoidhistory]

Apollo 7 launches from Cape Canaveral on this day in 1968. It's the first human spaceflight of Project Apollo.

[thelightofthingshopedfor]

BIIIIIIIG ROCKET

[spaceexp]

Saturn IB/V Instrument Unit Contract Awarded to IBM – March 31, 1965

This week in 1965, NASA awarded the Instrument Unit contract, NAS8-1400, to International Business Machines. This was the first major incentive contract to be negotiated in the Saturn IB Program. Designed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and built by IBM, the Instrument Unit served as the “nerve center” for the Saturn V, providing guidance and control, command and sequence of vehicle functions, telemetry and environmental control. Here, the Instrument Unit is being manufactured in the east high bay at IBM in Huntsville. The Saturn V was designed at Marshall. Now through December 2022, NASA will mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Program that landed a dozen astronauts on the Moon between July 1969 and December 1972, and the first U.S. crewed mission -- Apollo 8 -- that circumnavigated the Moon in December 1968. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating and preserving NASA's remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological and scientific aspects of NASA 's activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA's history, visit the Marshall History Program's webpage. Image credit: NASA Read more Marshall History For more NASA History photos 

[todaysdocument]

A Saturn 1B space launch vehicle lifts off from Launch Complex 34 carrying Apollo 7 astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr., Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham. 10/11/1968

Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files, 1982 - 2007. Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1921 - 2008. 

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