SA-5 Saturn I Block II Vehicle Description

I happened to visit the Dept. of Archives/Special Collections, M. Louis Salmon Library, University of Alabama in Huntsville shortly after they received the Sieber collection. While inspecting the several unsorted boxes, I came across a booklet entitled SA-5 Saturn I Block II Vehicle Description.

Published by the Marshall Space Flight Center in conjunction with the Chrysler Corporation Space Division (who would become the contractor for the final two S-I stages manufactured and all of the S-IB stages), this document (apparently also known as "R-P&VE-VSA-63-181") contains illustrations and text which briefly describe the SA-5 Saturn I Block II vehicle. It is dated December 26, 1963, just over a month prior to the launch of the SA-5 mission. SA-5 was the first Block II vehicle, and the first flight of a live S-IV stage.

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Here are some thumbnails from the pamphlet:

SA-5 Saturn I Block II Vehicle Description cut-away

SA-5 Saturn I Block II Vehicle Description tail unit assembly firewall wraparound suction lines water quench

SA-5 Saturn I Block II Vehicle Description tail area large stub fine hydrogen vent fairing lox fill and drain nozzle holddown bracket

SA-5 Saturn I Block II Vehicle Description spider beam top tank seal plate lox/sox dispersal triplex sphere retro rocket antenna panel lox vent line fuel manifold

SA-5 Saturn I Block II Vehicle Description S-IV forward interstage telemetry antenna command destruct antenna

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