LEGO Designer:
Adam Wilde (Apollo 110)
Designed:
October 2024
Categories:
All, Apollo Program, Launch Vehicles
Considered by some to be “the coolest rocket ever”, SA-5 was the first of the Block II Saturn I launch vehicles and the first orbital flight in the Apollo program. (I mean, it looks like bad-ass rifle round and is roll-patterned up the wazoo, so I can see the appeal.) It was launched on January 29, 1964 and was the first flight from LC-37B.
Block II saw the introduction of the live S-IV second stage, with six RL-10 engines, the same as was used on the Centaur upper stage. Changes to the S-I first stage saw enlarged fuel/LOX tanks enlarged, three H2 chill-down ducts added, new engine skirt and fairings and the installation of full size Block II antenna panels. And, of course, those awesome looking fins and stub fins. Also new was the four-compartment Instrument Unit, mounted at the forward end of the second stage. As with the Block I Saturns Is, it flew with a (now black-painted) Jupiter nose cone.
After successful stage separation, an eight-minute S-IV burn put the spacecraft into an elliptical 264 x 785 km orbit, from which it re-entered 791 days (and some 12,000 orbits) later on April 30, 1966.
At 1:110 scale this is a great companion model to the LEGO NASA Apollo Saturn V. Purchase includes a BrickLink Wishlist XML file and carefully prepared instructions with annotations to point out what the various details/sections are.
Sections of this model are adapted from David Welling’s OG Saturn I MOCs and it also repurposes the Saturn IB tank design devised by saxus, which is used with his kind permission.
Part count: bricks, lots.
| Unit | width | length | height |
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| Centimetres |
No: TNo: Serial Type Date LS Payload
1 1 SA-1 Saturn-1 (Bl.-1) 27.10.1961 CC LC-34 * (R/D) 2 2 SA-2 Saturn-1 (Bl.-1) 25.04.1962 CC LC-34 * Highwater 1 3 3 SA-3 Saturn-1 (Bl.-1) 16.11.1962 CC LC-34 * Highwater 2 4 4 SA-4 Saturn-1 (Bl.-1) 28.03.1963 CC LC-34 * (R/D) 5 1 SA-5 Saturn-1 (Bl.-2) 29.01.1964 CC LC-37B Saturn-SA 5 6 2 SA-6 Saturn-1 (Bl.-2) 28.05.1964 CC LC-37B Saturn-SA 6 & Apollo 101 (BP 13) 7 3 SA-7 Saturn-1 (Bl.-2) 18.09.1964 CC LC-37B Saturn-SA 7 & Apollo 102 (BP 15) 8 4 SA-9 Saturn-1 (Bl.-2) 16.02.1965 CC LC-37B Pegasus 1 / Apollo 103 (BP 16) 9 5 SA-8 Saturn-1 (Bl.-2) 25.05.1965 CC LC-37B Pegasus 2 / Apollo 104 (BP 26) 10 6 SA-10 Saturn-1 (Bl.-2) 30.07.1965 CC LC-37B Pegasus 3 / Apollo 105 (BP 9A) 11 1 SA-201 Saturn-1B 26.02.1966 CC LC-34 * Apollo 201 (CSM 009) 12 2 SA-203 Saturn-1B 05.07.1966 CC LC-37B Apollo 203 13 3 SA-202 Saturn-1B 25.08.1966 CC LC-34 * Apollo 202 (CSM 011) 14 4 SA-204 Saturn-1B 22.01.1968 CC LC-37B LM 1 (Apollo 5) 15 5 SA-205 Saturn-1B 11.10.1968 CC LC-34 Apollo 7 (CSM 101) 16 6 SA-206 Saturn-1B 25.05.1973 CCK LC-39B Skylab 2 (Apollo SLM-1, CSM 116) 17 7 SA-207 Saturn-1B 28.07.1973 CCK LC-39B Skylab 3 (Apollo SLM-2, CSM 117) / S150 (Galactic X-ray Mapping) 18 8 SA-208 Saturn-1B 16.11.1973 CCK LC-39B Skylab 4 (Apollo SLM-3, CSM 118) 19 9 SA-210 Saturn-1B 15.07.1975 CCK LC-39B ASTP (Apollo-Soyuz, CSM 111) / ASTP-DM Launch sites: CC = Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Eastern Test Range, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA CCK = NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA * = suborbital
Launch History information from space.skyrocket.de
