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SP-4206 Stages to Saturn

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Contents
To   Wernher von Braun 1912 - 1977   and the men and women who built the Saturn

 

FOREWORD.

PREFACE.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

 

I. PROLOGUE.

 

1. Concepts and Origins.

 

II. THE SATURN BUILDING; BLOCKS.

 

2. Aerospace Alphabet: ABMA, ARPA, MSFC.

 

3. Missions, Modes, and Manufacturing.

 

III. FIRE, SMOKE, AND THUNDER: THE ENGINES.

 

4. Conventional Cryogenics: The H-1 and the F-1.

 

5. Unconventional Cryogenics: RL-10 and J-2.

 

IV. BUILDING THE SATURN V.

 

6. From the S-IV to the S-IVB.

 

7. The Lower Stages: S-IC and S-ll.

 

8. From Checkout to Launch: The Quintessential Computer.

 

V. COORDINATION: MEN AND MACHINES.

 

9. Managing Saturn.

 

10. The Logistics Tangle.

 

Vl. STEP BY STEP.

 

11. Qualifying the Cluster Concept.

 

12. The Giant Leap.

 

VII. EPILOGUE.

 

13. Legacies

 

 

APPENDIX A - SCHEMATIC OF SATURN V.

APPENDIX B - SATURN V PRELAUNCH - LAUNCH SEQUENCE.

APPENDIX C - SATURN FLIGHT HISTORY.

APPENDIX D - SATURN R&D FUNDING, HISTORY.

APPENDIX E - SATURN V CONTRACTORS.

APPENDIX F - LOCATION OF REMAINING, SATURN HARDWARE.

APPENDIX G - NASA ORGANIZATION DURING APOLLO-SATURN.

APPENDIX H - MSFC PERSONNEL DURING, APOLLO-SATURN.

 

NOTES.

SOURCES AND RESEARCH MATERIAL.

INDEX.

AUTHOR.

 

 

- Illustrations -

 

• Frontispiece - the Saturn V at LC-39.
• Seven photos of Apollo 11 mission.
• Photo of Robert Goddard.
• Photo of German rocket pioneers.
• Four photos of early rockets in the U.S.
• Wernher von Braun with the first seven astronauts.
• Launch of Alan Shepard on Mercury-Redstone.
• Scale comparison of U.S. manned space flight vehicles.
• Development of Saturn concepts.
• Saturn I with Mercury-Redstone and Juno II.
• President Eisenhower with first NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan and Deputy Administrator Hugh Dryden.
• Wernher von Braun with his ABMA senior staff .
• President Eisenhower dedicates the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center.
• Abe Silverstein tours rocket facility.
• Two summary charts from the Silverstein Report.
• Early versions of the Saturn C-1 and C-5.
• The stable of NASA launch vehicles.
• John Houbolt and Lunar Orbit Rendezvous.
• President Kennedy at MSFC.
• Four aerial views of MSFC.
• Photos of Michoud Operations and Mississippi Test Facility.
• Saturn I design and manufacture.
• Saturn IB design and manufacture.
• Saturn engine applications.
• Turbopump for the H-1 engine.
• Specifics and systems of the H-1 engine.
• Firing and manufacture of the H-1 engine.
• Specifics and schematic of the F-1 engine.
• Engine start sequence for the S-IC stage.
• F-1 engine injector plate and turhopump.
• F-1 thrust chamber and brazing furnace.
• F-1 test stand.
• F-1 engine production line.
• Centaur stage with two RL-10 engines.
• RL-10 engine specifics and systems; engine cluster mounted in the S-IV stage of Saturn I.
• J-2 engine specifics, systems, assembly, and testing.
• Saturn S-IV stages.
• Seven photos of manufacturing the S-IVB stage.
• Comparison of S-IVB stages of Saturn IB and V.
• S-IVB stage rollout and testing.
• S-IC stage Saturn V launch vehicle.
• Five photos of skin fabrication for the S-IC stage.
• Six photos of assembly and testing of the S-IC stage.
• Seven photos of fabrication and assembly of the Sell stage.
• The mission control center at KSC.
• ST-124 inertial guidance platform.
• Instrument unit specifics, systems, and assembly.
• Wernher von Braun is briefed by Mathias Siebel.
• Saturn program major sites.
• Saturn contractors.
• Two organization charts of Saturn V program.
• Photo of Arthur Rudolph.
• NASA Office of Manned Space Flight Management Council.
• Manned Space Flight Awareness Program.
• Photo of MSFC's Saturn V program control center.
• S-IC flight stage at MSFC on its transporter.
• S-ll stage on its transporter.
• Five photos of the NASA barge fleet.
• Four photos of Saturn air transport.
• USNS Point Barrow.
• Saturn transportation equipment.
• Three views of Saturn I test flights.
• Two views of Pegasus payloads for Saturn I.
• Cutaway drawing and two views of the Saturn IB launch vehicle.
• AS-501, first flight-ready Saturn V.
• Launch Complex 39.
• Mobile Service Structures at LC 39.
• Apollo 8.
• Apollo 11 in flight; control room after launch; Astronaut Edwin Aldrin prepares to step onto lunar surface; lunar sample chest.
• Apollo 17 lunar roving vehicle.
• Commonality of Saturn hardware.
• Two photos of Saturn and Skylab.
• Two views of Saturn and the Apollo-Soyuz test Mission.
• Four photos of Huntsville, Alabama.

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