Saturn IB

Infobox rocket

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caption = The Saturn IB rocket for the AS-202 mission.
name = Saturn IB
country-origin = United States
function = Manned LEO launch vehicle
manufacturer = Chrysler (S-IB)
Douglas (S-IVB)
height = 68 m
alt-height = 224 ft
diameter = 6.6 m
alt-diameter = 21.7 ft
mass = 589,770 kg
alt-mass = 1,300,220 lb
stages = 2
LEO-payload = 15,300 kg
alt-LEO = 33,700 lb
status = Retired
sites = LC-37 & LC-34, Cape Canaveral
LC-39, Kennedy Space Center
launches = 9
success = 9
fail = 0
payloads = Manned Apollo CSM
first=February 261966
last=July 151975
stage1name = S-IB
stage1engines = 8 * H-1
stage1thrust = 6.7 MN
alt-stage1thrust = 1,500,000 lb_f
stage1time = ~150 seconds
stage1fuel = RP-1/LOX
stage2name = S-IVB
stage2engines = 1 Rocketdyne J-2
stage2thrust = 890 kN
alt-stage2thrust = 200,000 lb_f
stage2time = ~475 seconds
stage2fuel = LH2/LOXThe Saturn IB was an uprated version of the Saturn I, which featured a much more powerful second stage, the S-IVB. Unlike the earlier Saturn I, the IB had enough throw weight to launch the Apollo Command/Service Module or Lunar Module into Earth orbit, which made it invaluable for testing the Apollo spacecraft while the larger Saturn V needed to send them to the moon was still being developed. The Saturn IB was later used for manned Skylab flights, and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. The final production run (such as Skylab launch vehicles) did not have the alternating black and white tanks on the first stage that were hallmarks of the earlier runs.

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External links

* http://www.apollosaturn.com/
* http://www.spaceline.org/rocketsum/saturn-Ib.html
* NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center, "PDF| [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19740021163_1974021163.pdf Skylab Saturn IB Flight Manual] |20.5 MiB " , 30th September 1972
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