Saturn I/IB/V Launch Vehicle Flight History 
                  by Variant/Year (1961-1975)
                     Page 1 of 1  
            L(F) = Number of Launches(Number of Failures)  

        Saturn I  Saturn I  Saturn IB  Saturn V  Orbital   All
        Block I*  Block II                       Totals    Totals
Year     L(F)      L(F)      L(F)      L(F)      L(F)      L(F)   
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1960      -         -         -         -         -         -     
1961     1(0)*      -         -         -         -        1(0)
1962     2(0)*      -         -         -         -        2(0)
1963     1(0)*      -         -         -         -        1(0)
1964      -        3(0)       -         -        3(0)      3(0)
1965      -        3(0)+      -         -        3(0)      3(0)
1966      -         -        3(0)#      -        1(0)      3(0)
1967      -         -         -        1(0)      1(0)      1(0)
1968      -         -        2(0)      2(1)%     4(1)      4(1)
1969      -         -         -        4(0)      4(0)      4(0)

1970      -         -         -        1(0)++    1(0)      1(0)
1971      -         -         -        2(0)      2(0)      2(0)
1972      -         -         -        2(0)      2(0)      2(0)
1973      -         -        3(0)      1(0)$     4(0)      4(0)
1974      -         -         -         -         -         -    
1975      -         -        1(0)       -        1(0)      1(0)
1976      -         -         -         -         -         -    
1977      -         -         -         -         -         -    
1978      -         -         -         -         -         -    
1979      -         -         -         -         -         -    

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        Saturn I  Saturn I  Saturn IB  Saturn V  Orbital   All
        Block I*  Block II                       Totals    Totals
Year     L(F)      L(F)      L(F)      L(F)                L(F)  
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Suborb   4(0)       -        2(0)       -         -        6(0) 
Orbit     -        6(0)      7(0)     13(1)       -       26(1)
Total    4(0)      6(0)      9(0)     13(1)       -       32(1)
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Footnotes:

* Suborbital Flights of Saturn I Block I tested S-I stage 
    only, carried dummy S-IV and S-V upper stages

+ SA-8 flew successful orbital mission despite having one of 
    eight S-I stage engines shut down near end of first stage 
    burn.   
    
# Two 1966 suborbital Saturn IB test flights (AS-201, AS-202) 
    carried live S-IVB stages and Apollo CSMs.

% SA-502 (Apollo 6) flight suffered pogo oscillations that 
    damaged the SLA, caused two S-II J-2 engines to shut down 
    early, and caused the S-IVB J-2 engine restart to fail, 
    leaving Apollo 6 in a 175 by 356 km low earth orbit, far 
    short of the planned 185 by 528,000 km elliptical orbit.  
    A backup-plan SM engine burn allowed Apollo 6 to achieve 
    some mission objectives despite the launch vehicle failure. 

++ SA-508 (Apollo 13) suffered a shutdown of the S-II stage 
    center J-2 engine during ascent due to a pogo oscillation, 
    but still achieved orbit.  The problem did not hamper the 
    mission, but the failure was nearly catastrophic.

$ SA-513, the final Saturn V, used only two stages to boost 
    Skylab directly into low earth orbit.


Saturn Launch Vehicle Flight Evaluation Reports, Marshall 
    Space Flight Center, 1962-1975.
Jonathan's Space Report Launch Vehicle Database 
   "http://www.planet4589.org/space/lvdb/index.html"
Encylopedia Astronautica "http://www.astronautix.com/"
Gunter's Space Page "http://www.skyrocket.de/space"
TRW Space Logs, 1957-1996.

Last Update 12/8/2003 by Ed Kyle