Saturn I | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 06/05/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_I


00:01:22 1 History
00:01:31 1.1 Origins
00:06:15 1.2 Work begins
00:09:20 1.3 Enter NASA
00:12:34 1.4 Near-cancellation
00:15:54 1.5 Selecting the upper stages
00:21:15 1.6 Saturn emerges
00:25:13 2 Uses in service
00:26:25 3 Description
00:26:34 3.1 Data for the original Saturn I
00:26:44 3.2 S-I stage
00:28:26 3.3 S-IV stage
00:29:37 3.4 Saturn I Instrument Unit
00:32:08 4 Saturn I launches
00:32:24 5 See also



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SUMMARY
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The Saturn I (pronounced "Saturn one") was the United States' first heavy-lift dedicated space launcher, a rocket designed specifically to launch large payloads into low Earth orbit. Most of the rocket's power came from a clustered lower stage consisting of tanks taken from older rocket designs strapped together to make a single large booster, leading critics to jokingly refer to it as "Cluster's Last Stand".
Originally intended as a near-universal military booster during the 1960s, it instead found itself at the newly-formed NASA when that organization was founded. Its design proved sound and very flexible. Its major successes were launching the Pegasus satellites and flight verification of the Apollo Command and Service Module aerodynamics in the launch phase. Ten Saturn I rockets were flown before it was replaced by the derivative Saturn IB, which featured a more powerful upper stage and improved instrumentation.
President John F. Kennedy identified the Saturn I, and the SA-5 launch in particular, as being the point where US lift capability would surpass the Soviets, after being behind since Sputnik.