Author: Roger E. BilsteinPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788181866
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
Stages to Saturn
Author: Roger E. BilsteinPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788181866
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
Stages to Saturn
Author: Roger E. BilsteinPublisher: History Office
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
"A classic study of the development of the Saturn launch vehicle that took Americans to the moon in the 1960s"--Back cover.
Stages to Saturn
Author: Roger E. BilsteinPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528340670
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
An important inquiry into the development process and stages of the Saturn launch vehicle that enabled humankind to take some of their first steps towards the stars. Stages to Saturn is a meticulously produced official history in order to tell the globally important story of our quest to step off our planet. Roger Bilstein is one of the world's premier experts in the history and development of aeronautical invention for the purpose of extraterrestrial travel, he has written widely across this field but Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles is his crowning achievement. In places one can dive into the precision of lab notes and in others there are details about the logistics of bringing the best efforts of a society together. The Saturn rocket came into being as part of the Cold War space race, hoping to put an American man on the moon before the end of the 1960s. The Saturn V Rocket was a game changing evolution of technology, as though the wheel was invented and then a blink of an eye later became a water wheel, then two blinks later a steam engine. Roger Bilstein covers everything from the initial research and underpinnings of the manufacturing process all the way to the exciting stages of tests and its world changing missions. For anyone seeking to understand our infancy among the star this book is indispensable as it walks the reader through the puzzles which needed to be solved. This level of innovation at such amazing speed required bringing the best and the brightest minds of the century together. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
STAGES TO SATURN
Author: ROGER E. BILSTEINPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033003138
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Stages to Saturn: a Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles
Author: Professor Roger E BilsteinPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781478338314
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The gigantic Saturn V launch vehicle may well be the first and last of its kind. Subsequent space ventures will be based on new vehicles, such as the smaller, reusable Space Shuttle. Manned launches in the near future will be geared to orbital missions rather than planetary excursions, and unmanned deep-space missions will not demand the very high thrust boosters characteristic of the Apollo program. As the space program moves into the future, it also appears that the funding for elaborate "big booster" missions will not be forthcoming for NASA. The Saturn V class of launch vehicles are the end of the line of the Saturn generation. It is not likely that anything like them will ever be built again. Because of the commanding drama of the awesome Saturn V, it is easy to forget the first Saturns, the Saturn I and Saturn IB. This history is an attempt to give due credit to these pioneering vehicles, to analyze the somewhat awkward origins of the Saturn I as a test bed for static testing only, not as an operational vehicle, and to discuss the uprated Saturn IB as an interim booster for the orbital testing of the first Apollo capsules. This book is a technological history. To many contemporaries the narrative may read too much like a technical manual, but the author's concern is for posterity, when the technical manuals may be lost or dispersed and knowledgeable participants have passed on. The narrative approach was largely predicated on questions that might well be asked by future generations: How were the Saturns made? How did they work?
Stages to Saturn
Author: Roger E. BilsteinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781839310133
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
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Stages to Saturn
Author: Roger E BilsteinPublisher: Scholar's Choice
ISBN: 9781294988885
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
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Stages to Saturn
Author: Roger E. BilsteinPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781295831944
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
The Saturn V F-1 Engine
Author: Anthony YoungPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780387096292
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The launch of Sputnik in 1957 not only began the space age, it also showed that Soviet rockets were more powerful than American ones. Within months, the US Air Force hired Rocketdyne for a feasibility study of an engine capable of delivering at least 1 million pounds of thrust. Later, NASA ran the development of this F-1 engine in order to use it to power the first stage of the Saturn V rocket that would send Apollo missions to the Moon. It is no exaggeration to say that without the F-1 engine NASA would not have been able to achieve President Kennedy’s 1961 challenge to his nation to land a man on the Moon before the decade was out.
Chariots for Apollo
Author: Courtney G. BrooksPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486140938
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
This illustrated history by a trio of experts is the definitive reference on the Apollo spacecraft and lunar modules. It traces the vehicles' design, development, and operation in space. More than 100 photographs and illustrations.
