Editing Saturn I SA-3 (section)

== History ==

The Saturn I launch vehicle components were delivered to Cape Canaveral by the barge ''Promise'' on September 19, 1962,<ref name="thirdsaturn1964" />{{rp|6}} but erection of the first-stage booster onto its launch pedestal was delayed until September 21 due to a [[1962 Atlantic hurricane season|tropical depression]] that moved over the Florida peninsula.<ref name="Benson1978" /> The dummy second and third stages (S-IV and S-V) and payload were assembled on the booster on September 24.<ref name="thirdsaturn1964" />{{rp|6}} [[:wikt:ballast|Ballast]] water was loaded into the dummy stages on October 31, and the [[RP-1]] fuel was loaded on November 14.<ref name="thirdsaturn1964" />{{rp|6}}

For this launch, Cape Canaveral director [[Kurt Debus]] asked Marshall Space Flight Center director [[Wernher von Braun]], who was overseeing the Saturn project, that no outside visitors be allowed on NASA grounds due to the ongoing tensions of the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]].<ref name="Benson1978" />