Stages to Saturn
A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles
Bilstein, Roger E.
This thorough and well-written book gives a detailed but highly readable account of the enormously complex process whereby the Marshall Space Flight Center under the direction of Wernher von Braun developed the launch vehicles used in the Apollo program to send humans to the Moon. Based on exhaustive research and equipped with extensive bibliographic references, this book comes as close to being a definitive history of the Saturn rocket program as is ever likely to appear. Moreover, it is not simply a technical history but covers the decision-making process that lay behind the technological development, making it not just a history of hardware development but also an analysis of technical management and organization.
Contents:
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Preface to the 2003 edition
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-II
- 8. From Checkout to Launch: The Quintessential Computer
V. Coordination: Men and Machines
- 9. Managing Saturn
- 10. The Logistics Tangle
VI. 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 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
Softcover
513 Seiten / pages
photos
very good condition, like new
Gainesville, Florida, USA - 2003 - University Press of Florida
Art.Nr. 25510
