#sa-7

"The Saturn I S-IV stage (second stage) for the SA-7 mission being prepared for shipment to Cape Canaveral, Florida. The S-IV stage had six RL-10 engines, which used liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as its propellants, arranged in a circle. Each RL-10 engine produced a thrust of 15,000 pounds for a total combined thrust of 90,000 pounds. The SA-7 mission was launched on September 18, 1964 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and its S-IV stage made the second orbital flight."

Date: January 8, 1964

The second stage (S-IV-7) for AS-104 Saturn I Block II (BP-15/SA-7) was delivered to the Kennedy Space Center.

Date: June 12, 1964

Erecting the S-I-7 stage of AS-102 (BP-15/SA-7) on launch pad 37B.

Date: June 7, 1964

View of the AS-102 Saturn I Block II (BP-15/SA-7) launch vehicle on the launch pad 37B for a Radio Frequency Interference Test.

Date: August 13, 1964

Apollo Command Module boiler plate #15 (BP-15) is being checked out at Hangar A-F, prior to stacking onto the AS-102 Saturn I Block II (SA-7) launch vehicle at Launch Complex 37, pad B, Cape Canaveral, Florida,

"The command module structure, heat shield, and internal equipment arrangement will protect the astronauts from the hazards of radiation in space. The module will contain subsystems to provide electrical power, communications, orientation control, orientation stabilization, environmental control, earth landing and crew-support subsystem.”

Date: June 1964

NASA ID: 64-SA7-7

"Ground level view of the Saturn I SA-7 vehicle on pad 37B with service gantry removed, showing the entire vehicle during Radio Frequency Interference Test check at KSC.

The upper half of the vehicle, about 80 feet long and weighing about 37,000 pounds, is expected to be placed in orbit."

Date: August 24, 1964

"Saturn Apollo Program

In this photograph, the Saturn I S-I stages for the SA-4, SA-6, and SA-7 missions were being assembled at the Fabrication and Assembly Engineering Division in the Marshall Space Flight Center building 4705. (Left to right: SA-6, SA-7 & SA-4.) Marshall designed, developed and managed the production of the Saturn I and the Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the moon. SA-4, an uncrewed test flight of the Saturn I booster, was the final of a series of four tests of the Saturn I first stage."

Date: January 13, 1963