[Saturn 1B] — Extra Large Saturn 1B blueprint, signed and inscribed by Apollo 7 Lunar Module Pilot Walt Cunningham

[Saturn 1B]

Saturn 1B Vehicle No. 201. LL-34. Hunstville, Alabama: NASA Launch Operations Center, [1966].

36^1/2 x 73 in. blueprint of the Saturn 1B Launch Vehicle. Lightly toned, creases where previously folded, minor smudges down right edge, small tears at three midsection folds. 

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Apollo 7 Lunar Module Pilot Walt Cunningham: "Original 1966 NASA plan / for the first Saturn / rocket flight - / Walt Cunningham / APOLLO 7".

An excellent, highly detailed blueprint of the Saturn 1B launch vehicle, detailing the rocket's two stages (S-1B and S-IVB), components of the spacecraft, as well as of the corresponding launch tower. At just over 223 ft in height, the Saturn 1B was dwarfed by the Saturn V (at 363 ft), but despite its more diminutive size still packed a punch, with its 8 Rocketdyne H-1 engines delivering a thrust of 1,600,000 lbs. It was used to launch two uncrewed suborbital flights, one uncrewed LM orbital flight, and Apollo 7 (the first crewed CSM orbital mission), as well as ferrying the crews of Skylab 2, 3, and 4 to the Skylab space station and finally, the Apollo portion of the Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), marking the symbolic end to the Space Race.