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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
16:25:01
Wednesday January 29, 1964
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The major changes that occurred on SA-5 were that for the first time the Saturn I would fly with two stages - the S-I first stage and the S-IV second stage. The second stage featured six engines burning liquid hydrogen. Although this engine design (RL10) was meant to be tested several years earlier in the Centaur upper stage, in the end the first Centaur was launched only two months before SA-5.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
17,600 kilograms

5th
Mission
1st
Mission of 1964
5th
Orbital launch attempt