Word: saturns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Definition. Despite increased commitment, it is still the unhappy truth that the Saturn C-1 booster- the U.S.'s answer to Russia's big rocket-is still in its test stages. And it is all too symbolic of an American attitude that even last week, while Popovich and Nikolayev were holding the high ground, a handful of striking electricians at the Huntsville, Ala., Space Center stopped Saturn construction dead...
...hydrogen engine (also made by North American) is even farther from flight. None of this worries Holmes. Like most engineers, he is used to forecasting the technical future by figuring what can be accomplished with combinations and modifications of existing equipment. There is nothing in the C-5 Advanced Saturn, he says, that is beyond the present "state of the art." Since the smaller engines of the Saturn C-1 have flown successfully in clusters of eight, then the F-1 engines can surely be harnessed in clusters of five. He also concedes that liquid hydrogen, basic to the Apollo...
...even bigger booster, the Saturn C1, is not a military weapon at all but an integral part of the Apollo man-on-the-moon project. Developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala., its first stage is largely the creation of famed Wernher von Braun, who designed V-2 rockets for the Nazis in World War II. With eight H-1 (Atlas) engines bound together to produce 1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust, the Saturn C-1 has been test-flown twice from Cape Canaveral, and it worked perfectly each time. The future star...
Five of these mighty machines, which are now well into their final reliability tests, will lift each Saturn C-5 off the ground with 7,500,000 Ibs. of thrust. Then a second stage, with five J-2 hydrogen-burning engines (1,000.000 Ibs. total thrust), will take over. Between them, the two stages will be capable of putting a 240,000-lb. payload on an earth orbit 140 miles high. A third stage, with a single J-2 engine, will push 90,000 Ibs. to earth escape velocity and deliver that hefty payload at the moon...
...Canaveral, once an Air Force principality, NASA has begun to look and act like the majority stockholder. The gantries and pads of the military "Missile Row" are busier than ever, but they are dwarfed by the 310-ft. gantry and 240-ft. umbilical tower of the Saturn C-1 site, which boasts the most elaborate blockhouse in the space business. A second gantry and tower are rising fast, and farther north NASA is buying thousands of acres of beachland, swamp and orange groves for the stupendous equipment needed to launch the great C-5 moon rockets. These intricate monsters...