Saturn IB | Apollo AS-203
Space Launch Complex 37B
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Apollo AS-203
The purpose of Apollo 203 was to check out the behaviour of the fuel inside the Saturn-4B stage in weightlessness, which was crucial to allow the reignition of the stage.
Saturn IB
Height 43.20 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 7100 kN
Diameter 6.61 Meters
Mass To LEO 21000 kg
Liftoff Mass 590 Tonnes
Launch Success 9
Consecutive Success 6
Maiden Flight 1966-02-26
Launch Failures 1
Programs
Apollo
The Apollo program was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.
