Saturn 1B NASA rocket 1/72Saturn 1B NASA rocket model. The Saturn series of launch vehicles are large scale rockets developed for NASA's Apollo lunar landing program. This type of rocket was originally proposed by Wernher Von Braun in 1957, who at that time was assigned to the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA). Following its establishment in 1958, Von Braun and other U. S. Army scientists were transferred to NASA, with the Saturn rocket development program subsequently