Documenting the legendary Saturn V, the largest, most powerful rocket ever produced, this reference reveals how the scientists of the day met President Kennedy s challenge for a moon landing by the end of the 1960s and how the spaceship rose from the drawing board to flight-vehicle status in record time. Highlighting its flawless flight career, this investigation delves into the ship s development, assembly, manufacturing, and testing, presenting an exhaustive history of each element. Surveying the dangers that resulted ...
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Documenting the legendary Saturn V, the largest, most powerful rocket ever produced, this reference reveals how the scientists of the day met President Kennedy s challenge for a moon landing by the end of the 1960s and how the spaceship rose from the drawing board to flight-vehicle status in record time. Highlighting its flawless flight career, this investigation delves into the ship s development, assembly, manufacturing, and testing, presenting an exhaustive history of each element. Surveying the dangers that resulted from its construction, this overview shows how stages blew up, materials disintegrated, and engines exploded. With coverage of every firing, including timeline and performance details, this study also features a vast collection of never-before-seen photographs. Based on more than two years of research and drawing on information from all major NASA facilities, history offices, and libraries, this fascinating reconstruction ranges from the program s start in the early 1960s to its conclusion in the mid 1970s, outlining a major turning point in the history of space technology. With an entirely new sectiondetailing the identification and location of all of the Saturn F-1, J-2, and H-1 engines that are still in existence, this fully revised and updated 2010 edition featuresadditional photographs, and aforeword by Apollo 10 Commander Col. Tom Stafford."
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Add this copy of Saturn to cart. $49.95, fair condition, Sold by Goodwill of Colorado rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Apogee Books.
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Fair. This item is in overall acceptable condition. Covers and dust jackets are intact but may have heavy wear including creases, bends, edge wear, curled corners or minor tears as well as stickers or sticker-residue. Pages are intact but may have minor curls, bends or moderate to considerable highlighting/ writing. Binding is intact; however, spine may have heavy wear. Digital codes may not be included and have not been tested to be redeemable and/or active. A well-read copy overall. Please note that all items are donated goods and are in used condition. Orders shipped Monday through Friday! Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Orders shipped Monday through Friday. Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Thank you!
Add this copy of Saturn V; the Complete Manufacturing and Test Records to cart. $275.00, very good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Apogee Books.
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Presumed First Edition, First printing thus
Publisher:
Apogee Books
Published:
2005
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
15541232660
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Very good. 328 pages and DVD at back cover. Contents include News Reference, Manufacturing and Test Records, Descriptions of instruments, facilities, testing, vehicle assembly, and flight history, glossary, and Index. Illustrations. Payload Planners Guide. Front cover has curve. Alan Lawrie is a satellite propulsion engineer who has 36 years of experience in the space industry and has published on the Saturn rockets as well as Images of Modern America: Sacramento's Moon Rockets. To achieve Kennedy's vision, NASA partnered with US industry to build the largest rocket ever produced, the Saturn V. It was designed and tested in record time and made its first flight in 1967. Less than two years later, the crew of Apollo 11 was launched on a Saturn V and watched by millions of people. Neil Armstrong made his famous giant leap for mankind, to be followed by 11 other astronauts who also walked on the moon. The complete story of the Saturn V Rocket is presented in this detailed history of each stage of the construction and testing process. From the drawing boards of Boeing, North American Aviation, and the Douglas company, through shipping materials on massive Super Guppy air transports, prototype engine firings, and wind tunnel tests, and finally to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center, every stage of the planning, production, and actual flight of the rocket is meticulously documented. The lives of the first 45 rocket stages built for the Saturn project are charted, including unprecedented information on the dates, times, and performance parameters for each stage, the production facilities used, documentation of the stages that malfunctioned and the engines that exploded along the way. Details on the development of the F1 and J2 rocket engines and declassified photographs of the Saturn project are included.
