SA-513: Apollo 18, (Canceled)
Launch vehicle serial numbers: S-IC-13, S-II-13, S-IVB-513, S-IU-513
Spacecraft serial numbers: None
Disposition of Hardware:
- S-IC-13 used for Skylab I launch
- S-II-13 used for Skylab I launch
- S-IVB-513 on display at Johnson Space Center
- S-IU-513 used for Skylab I launch
NOTE: When Apollo 15 was deleted and Apollos 16-18 renumbered, it left Launch Vehicle SA 513 for Skylab. S-IVB-212 had already been pulled from production and modified into the Orbital Workshop, with S-IVB-515 as the backup workshop. S-IVB-513 had already been completed (and would require too much work to convert it into the workshop configuration) so it became an "extra" stage.
SA-514: Apollo 19, (Canceled)
Launch vehicle serial numbers: S-IC-14, S-II-14, S-IVB-514, S-IU-514
Spacecraft serial numbers: None
Disposition of Hardware:
- S-IC-14 on display at Johnson Space Center
- S-II-14 on display at Apollo-Saturn V Center, Kennedy Space Center
- S-IVB-514 on display at Apollo-Saturn V Center, Kennedy Space Center
- S-IU-514 location unknown
NOTE: This vehicle, along with Skylab II (S-IVB-515) could have been our second space station and might have survived until the Space Shuttle flew.
SA-515 Apollo 20 (Canceled)
Launch vehicle serial numbers: S-IC-15, S-II-15, S-IVB-515, S-IU-515
Spacecraft serial numbers: None
Disposition of hardware:
- S-IC-15 on display at Michoud Assembly Facility
- S-II-15 on display at Johnson Space Center
- S-IVB-515 converted into Skylab Orbital Workshop backup hardware, now on display at the National Air and Space Museum
- S-IU-515 location unknown
NON-FLIGHT HARDWARE
SA-500F Facilities Integration Vehicle
Launch vehicle serial numbers: S-IC-F, S-II-F, S-IVB-500F, S-IU-500F
Spacecraft serial numbers: S/C FVV
Rolled out as completed Saturn V stack on ML #1 on May 25, 1966.
- S-IC-F: One F-1 engine and four mass simulators were installed, No American Flag painted on LOX tank, manufactured at Michoud, location unknown (last seen at MSFC)
- S-II-F: (S-II-F/D) S-IC/S-II interstage separation planes painted red, 8 ullage rockets installed, no vertical motion targets, 8 camera targets on Fwd Skirt, on display as second stage of the Saturn V at the Alabama Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL (Used as Dynamic Test Stage replacement after destruction of S-II-S/D and S-II-T)
- S-IVB-500F: (Also known as S-IVB-200F) Motion Damper Arm mounted on the S-II/S-IVB interstage (moved to Launch Escape Tower on subsequent vehicles), S-II retrorocket fairings painted red (white on subsequent vehicles). Paint scheme is a modified 200 series (Saturn IB) S-IVB type. Location unknown
- S-IU-200F/500F -- also used with S-IVB-200F/500F for verifying Pad 34, built at MSFC, location unknown
- S/C FVV: Spacecraft Facilities Verification Vehicle- Apollo Boilerplate SLA/CSM/LES (serial unknown), now part of Saturn IB SA-209 display at Visitors Complex, KSC (SM had deteriorated and was replaced with new mock-up in 1993)
Comments: First complete Saturn V stack used to test ML #1 and Pad A interfaces. Rolled out on ML #1 on May 25, 1966. Most plastic models were patterned after this vehicle's paint and markings scheme which was not correct for any flight vehicle.
Other Test Stages
- S-IC-T: All systems test stage now on display at the Apollo Saturn V Center, KSC Florida (manufactured at MSFC), now painted to resemble S-IC-6 (Apollo 11).
- S-II-T: Destroyed in an explosion while being tested May 28, 1966
- S-IC-D: Dynamic Test Stage at MSFC with four simulated and one real F-1 engines. On display at Alabama Space and Rocket Center.
- S-II-D: Cancelled, S-II-S/D used instead
- S-IVB-D: Dynamic Test Stage- on display at the Alabama Space and Rocket Center
- S-IU-D: Location unknown
- S-IC-S: Structural Test Stage, no engines installed, location unknown
- S-II-S/D: Structural and Dynamic Test Vehicle at MSFC, destroyed in test stand September 29, 1965, S-II-F/D used instead (see 500-F above)
- S-IVB-S: Cancelled
- S-IC-C: Wooden mockup built at MSFC to map wiring harness length, location unknown
- S-IC battleship stages: location unknown
- S-IC Thrust structure mockup: built at Michoud, location unknown
- S-IC Thrust structure mockup: located at the old fairgrounds in New York, site of the 1964 World's Fair (seen in movie "Men in Black")Photo courtesy of Rick Sternbach
Last update: March 16, 2000
Copyright 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 by John Duncan
Comments and questions welcome. All photographs contained on these pages are the author's, unless otherwise noted. No unauthorized reproduction without permission.
