The Saturn launch vehicle program has become a major element in our national space effort within little more than 3 years. At the beginning of the program, in 1958, various Saturn configurations were planned to lift instrumented payloads of 20,000 to 40,000 lb. into Earth orbit. As research and development progressed, it became apparent that the vehicle design approach had far more potential than anticipated that it was, in fact, a breakthrough into a new class of heavy launch vehicles. Thus, within the space of a few years, it was possible to consider even more advanced missions. In addition to placing multiton payloads in orbit, we can seriously conceive sending over 90,000 lb. of instruments on escape missions, using advanced Saturn-class vehicles. With these vehicles, we plan to accomplish lunar reconnaissance and manned lunar landings scheduled for the latter part of this decade. Likewise, these vehicles will permit flight tests of advanced nuclear power plants and stages.


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    Titel :

    Development of the Saturn Space Vehicle


    Beteiligte:


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1962-03-23


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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