The Saturn V thread

[Super George]

Wanted to start a thread explaining how it came about, and how it all worked, including images and info.

I'm sure there are people here with a good knowledge of the big rocket

[Tony T. Harris]

What would you like to know?

[Super George]

Images, video, background, development, parts of the Saturn V and everything anyone can think of please!

[SpaceCat]

For starters:

http://www.apollosaturn.com/

http://history.nasa.gov/MHR-5/cover.htm

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4206/sp4206.htm

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/cover.html

[Jamie Young]

I'm too young to even remember anything pre-Shuttle, so images and diagrams would be good too. Links are nice, but it's easy to get confused within the first line. Images are good.

[HarryM]

I remember watching the A-17 launch on TV live when a kid, I was only 6.  Night launch.

[Terry Rocket]

Videos on the FTP section.

Chris Bergin - 24/8/2005  4:24 PM

We've got a night Shuttle launch - so here's Apollo 17's night launch via a Saturn V (yikes - some power).

CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO DOWNLOAD

Source NASA HQ - BBC Archives

Chris Bergin - 24/8/2005  5:46 PM

This is very cool (I'll get some more Shuttle stuff up soon, but these Saturn V's are something else!)

Source: BBC Archives/NASA

CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO DOWNLOAD

Chris Bergin - 24/8/2005  6:44 PM

They did know how to film these launches!

CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO DOWNLOAD

Credit NASA / BBC Archive.

Chris Bergin - 30/8/2005  8:46 PM

Didn't even know about this myself....

Source: groups.msn.com/SpaceCowboySaloon and NASA.


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Lots more, go to the back pages of the FTP pages (8 and 9).

Also, Dana from SpaceCowboy seems to be the man for lots more...if he can provide links to his site?

[Chris Bergin]

Dana and his SCS is the best resource for this sort of historical information.

I'm sure he'll be kind enough to help this thread, but in the meantime: http://groups.msn.com/spacecowboysaloon

[psloss]

Another great site for pictures and multimedia is Kipp Teague's Project Apollo Archive:
http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_archive.html

[Avron]

Tony T. Harris - 21/1/2006  10:10 PM

What would you like to know?

I would love to hear your side of story, what the challenges you or your team had and how they where overcome, some of your experiences, the personal feelings, the time lines/pressures…etc

[STS Tony]

Such an amazing towering rocket. Those videos are stunning.

Did it have more thrust than even the STS?

[Flightstar]

STS Tony - 22/1/2006  10:54 AM

Such an amazing towering rocket. Those videos are stunning.

Did it have more thrust than even the STS?

Different beasts and as such people don't like to compare.

But the full Saturn V, remember there were more versions, was 7.5 million lbs thrust from liquid propellant and the STS is 7.7 million lbs thrust, 6.6 million of that coming from the SRBs, although again you have to then take a number of factors into account.

A shuttle launch is very loud and bright, but nothing could compare to the Saturn Vs, which had vibrations that would hit you from your front and then bounce off the VAB and LCC and get you on the way back. Very disorinenting at the time, but about as much fun as you can have with your pants on. The sight was simply amazing.

[SpaceCat]

Another early image page, and a bunch of links via Marshall:

http://www.dars.org/jimz/ip-270.htm

http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/saturn_apollo/index.html

[AndyMc]

A few more for you:

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/tindex.html#5

http://insideksc.cjb.net:8081/docs.htm
http://www.geocities.com/bobandrepont/spacepdf.htm

http://copperas.com/apollo/pageholders/0_01cover.htm
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/frame.html

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr05/2697

Hope that's enough to be getting on with.

To see the construction and testing of the Saturn V, the DVD The Mighty Saturns is well worth buying.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001NBM5I/qid=1137963737/sr=1-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-1157465-0879057?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130

[publiusr]

Nice links.