Saturn SA-1 Launch

Views of the Saturn I SA-1 launch, on October 27, 1961 from Cape Canaveral, Florida S-1 was the first flight of the Saturn I space launch vehicle, the first in the Saturn family, and first mission of the American Apollo program. The only live stage was the S-I first stage. The flight was designed to test the structure of the launch vehicle during a suborbital flight using the nose cone from a Jupiter rocket. The rocket reached a height of 136.5 km and impacted 345.7 km down range from the launch site in the Atlantic Ocean Sequences shown in real time, with multiple views when possible. Assembled from several NASA, public domain and historical documentaries.