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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: ASTM, Saturn and MOL (Was Re: MOL)
- Message-ID: <Bzu23x.4wq@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 20:55:08 GMT
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- In article <23DEC199220530775@judy.uh.edu> wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov writes:
- >>...The third stage (S-V) was to have been powered by 2 RL-10
- >>engines. The S-V was NOT Centaur...
- >
- >I can buy the four engines and 6 engine bit, but according to document I
- >have found here and the Book "Rocket Scientist" and Medaris's " Cound down
- >to Decision" These were desginated the Centaur, although I will go back and
- >look and make sure of this just in case.
-
- Stages To Saturn, NASA SP-4206, says specifically that the original S-V
- stage was to be a Centaur. It was slated to be the third stage of the
- Saturn C-1 and the fourth stage of Saturn C-2 (which used the S-IV as
- its third stage and was to have a new second stage). (The Saturn C-3
- moved things up one more stage, with the S-IV as fourth stage, the
- C-2's second stage as third stage, and another new second stage.)
-
- Incidentally, it's important to understand that (a) there were a lot
- of Saturn designs proposed -- the same study that nailed down the C-1-2-3
- scheme also recomended against proceeding with the Saturn A-1, A-2, and
- B-1, and those were only the most promising survivors from a longer list --
- and (b) the same name sometimes got re-used (there were at least three
- different vehicles named "Saturn C-3" at various times).
-
- >>The 'C' designation was dropped somewhere along the way, with the Saturn C-1
- >>becoming simply Saturn 1...
- >
- >According to Dr. Sthulinger and Konrad Dannenburg the C-1 designation was
- >dropped when the CSM was put on the stack...
-
- The C designation was dropped in Feb 1963 when terminology was tidied up.
- Before then, it was a C-1 whether or not it had Apollo hardware on top.
- --
- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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