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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Centaur on Saturn
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 23:38:45 GMT
- References: <h0l2prg@rpi.edu> <ewright.724543661@convex.convex.com> <phfrom.413@nyx.uni-konstanz.de> <1h2egpINNmk9@mirror.digex.com> <1992Dec23.192920.7268@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <23DEC199220530775@judy.uh.edu> <Bzu23x.4wq@zoo.toronto.edu> <72444@cup.portal.com>
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- In article <72444@cup.portal.com> BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) writes:
- > ... But wasn't this discussion REALLY about
- > whether Centaur actually flew on a Saturn? Not was it intended to,
- > but did it ever go up on one? It didn't, to the best of my knowledge.
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- What this discussion was originally about is perhaps debatable... :-)
- No Centaur ever flew on a Saturn; the S-V stage was dropped from "mainline"
- Saturn planning in June 1961, although Saturn/Centaur persisted until
- 1965 as the intended launcher for the original Voyager project. The first
- four Saturn I launches (and possibly the fifth, it's not entirely clear
- from my references) carried dummy S-V stages with the right shape and
- mass, but none was ever real hardware.
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- "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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