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- From: hughes@gary.enet.dec.com (Gary Hughes - VMS Development)
- Subject: Re: ASTM, Saturn and MOL (Was Re: MOL)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.180900.25657@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:04:21 GMT
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- In article <72444@cup.portal.com>, BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) writes...
- > Thanks for all that info, my copy of 'Stages to Saturn' is in a box
- > stored away somewhere. 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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- No live S-V stage ever flew. Indeed, the Block 1 Saturns and the first Block 2
- Saturn used boilerplate Jupiter tanks and nose cones to simulate the S-V. One
- reference suggests that Von Braun pushed to cancel the S-V, to maintain the
- image that the Saturn 1 was an R&D vehicle (thus ensuring funds for future
- Saturn development).
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- FWIW, I did some more digging over the holiday and found that an earlier
- proposal had the S-V powered by two LR-119 engines (aka RL-10B in at least one
- source) before the LR-119 was canned.
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- Does anyone know if 'Stages to Saturn' is still purchaseable?
-
- gary
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