This week in 1965, SA-9, the first Saturn mission with an operational payload, launched carrying the Pegasus-1 satellite.
This week in 1965, SA-9, the first Saturn mission with an operational payload, launched carrying the Pegasus-1 satellite. Designed, produced and operated by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Pegasus-1, which studied punctures by potentially hazardous micrometeoroids at high altitudes, launched aboard the Marshall-built Saturn I rocket. 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.
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