{"id":190335,"date":"2025-03-25T00:02:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?p=837705"},"modified":"2025-03-25T00:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:02:50","slug":"50-years-ago-final-saturn-rocket-rolls-out-to-launch-pad-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=190335","title":{"rendered":"50 Years Ago: Final Saturn Rocket Rolls Out to Launch Pad 39\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

On March 24, 1975, the last in a long line of super successful Saturn rockets rolled out from the vehicle assembly building to Launch Pad 39B at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Saturn IB rocket for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was the 19th<\/sup> in the Saturn class stacked in the assembly building, beginning in 1966 with the Saturn V 500F<\/a> facilities checkout vehicle. Thirteen flight Saturn V rockets followed, 12 to launch Apollo spacecraft and one to place the Skylab<\/a> space station into orbit. In addition, workers stacked four flight Saturn IB rockets, three to launch crews to Skylab<\/a> and one for Apollo-Soyuz<\/a>, plus another for the Skylab rescue vehicle<\/a> that was not needed and never launched. Previously, workers stacked Saturn I and Saturn IB rockets on the pads at Launch Complexes 34 and 37. With the successful liftoff in July 1975, the Saturn family of rockets racked up a 100 percent success rate of 32 launches. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n