Word: saturns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believes that no major breakthroughs are required, only modest improvements in the space art. Nor, it insists, need the project wait for new big boosters; the eight-engine Saturn (1,500,000 lbs. of thrust), which has been ground-tested already, should be good enough. Two hundred Saturns will be needed, together with massive upper stages and a host of other fancy equipment, to soft-land ten colonists and 500,000 lbs. of equipment on the moon...
Like Noah s Ark. One Saturn cluster with its upper stages and lunar landing retrorockets is expected to soft-land 2,370 lbs. of cargo-or two men and their life support-on the moon. The G.E. plan is to set a radio beacon on a suitable lunar plain selected in advance by instrumented exploring rockets. Cargo ships will home in on the beacon and land their loads within half a mile of it. When all essential articles have arrived safely, the colonists will follow two by two, like the animals entering Noah's ark. Their first job will...
...jobs. If its nylon fabric is replaced with cloth woven of heat-resistant metal wires, the Flex Wing may be able to ease space vehicles down through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. One candidate for this treatment, say Ryan engineers, might be the elaborate eight-engine booster of the Saturn rocket, which will crash to costly destruction a short time after launch unless it is landed gently...
...program will not lead to the demise of non-spectacular, non-military scientific research projects if the selection is done wisely. Efforts must be made to leapfrog the Soviets in big boosters, by working on "far-out" ideas. A clear choice must be made between the Rover, Nova and Saturn booster projects, and that choice must be pushed hard, with work done on more than a 40-hour-a-week basis. Adequate deterrent power is an necessity, of course, but unnecessary obeisance must not be made to the holy word Defense, even though the more mention of it is guaranteed...
...less spectacular, and more fruitful, space research with small rockets. Finally, under pressure from those who saw the vast advantage the Communists would have in space exploration through their ability to lift heavy loads aloft, the Eisenhower Administration got moving in 1958 on the 1,500,000-lb.-thrust Saturn booster, a relatively primitive design of eight engines in a single cluster. The Saturn has been static-tested, but will not be operational until 1965 or 1966. Only recently has the program been allotted anything more than a shoestring budget for research and development...