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This Week in NASA History: First Saturn Launch Vehicle, SA-1, Launches — Oct. 27, 1961

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Oct 28, 2015
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This week in 1961, the first Saturn launch vehicle, SA-1, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

This week in 1961, the first Saturn launch vehicle, SA-1, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The Saturn I launch vehicle was built at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s Fabrication and Assembly Engineering Division. The NASA History Program documents and preserves NASA’s remarkable history through a variety of products — photos, press kits, press releases, mission transcripts and administrators’ speeches. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the History Program’s Web page.