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HI, Well finally finished this to a reasonable finish,the build,s are posted in the in-progress section,warts and all? a little bit of history,about this major vehicle in the up-coming moon programme... Saturn one----SA-1.....A.K.A. BY ITS CRITICS as " CLUSTERS LAST STAND" Programme named Saturn as its the one after the jupiter,programme launched oct 27....1961 This was basically the first step towards the Moon,President Kennedy,said of the Saturn Project,that the launch of SA-5 was the launch that caught up with the russians,and passed them,with regards to lift weight capability?,He said this the day before he was assassinated. The SA-1,s big successes were,verifying the launch configuration of the lower booster stage,and a dummy version of future,Apollo upper stages,flight simulations of the Apollo command and service module,s. the next flights would fill the dummy stages with water to see how fuel would react /affect flight,suprisingly the project was named "Project Highwater". also the last few of this configuration were used to launch the Pegasus serie,s of satellites. It was also considered for the launch vehicle for the proposed Dyna Soar space plane.?and also considered for launching a Gemini capsule on a proposed Moon mission? So basically SA-1 was a cluster of eight Redstone boosters,around a Jupiter tank,With 4x tanks painted white which contained L.O.X {LIQUID OXYGEN]. And 4x tanks painted black,which contained RP-1 rocket fuel. The outer 4x engines {,with red on the model] were swivelled,so the booster was steerable. Right heres the pics,let me know what you think?,and thanks for sticking with this. cheers Don enjoy Don