Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (578 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1478338318 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 536 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Complete Story Of The Saturn Family This book is the most complete history of the Saturn launch vehicle family available. Author Roger Bilstein wrote this as an official history for NASA in the late 1970s, and it was originally published in 1980. This edition is paperbound and is published by the University Press of Florida. I was tempted to give the book five stars, but ultimately two things lowered it to four. First, the illustrations are quite poor. All are black and white and most are public domain images that are of low quality. Many are taken from much larger sources and compressed so that the legends and details are virtually or completely impossible to dis. "Five Stars" according to Darryl. Very helpful. "Good documentary of Saturn program" according to T. Skloss. I'm an apollo nut and very much into the technical details of the program. This book is a good overview of the Saturn project and an excellent place to start if you are just beginning your adventure into history.However I found the book to be lacking in detail when it comes to specific technological problems and how they were solved. One has to go to the more detailed sources (NASA press kits, 1st-person accounts, etc.) for the good stuff.The book is written in dry, documentary fashion. It is factual (a NASA publication) but not an entertaining read.Again, an excellent source for facts, figures and an complete overview of the ma
"Easily the best book of the NASA History Series.Starting with the earliest rockets, Bilstein traces the development of the family of massive Saturn launch vehicles that carried the Apollo astronauts to the moon and boosted Skylab into orbit."
. He is the author of Flight Patterns: Trends of Aeronautical Development in the United States, 1918-1929; Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles; and Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts, the last available from Johns Hopkins. Roger E. Bilstein is a professor emeritus of history at the Universit
The gigantic Saturn V launch vehicle may well be the first and last of its kind. 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. It is not likely that anything like them will ever be built again. This book is a technological history. 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. Because of the commanding drama of the awesome Saturn V, it is easy to forget the first Saturns, the Saturn I and Saturn IB. 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. The narrative approach was largely predicated on questions that might well be asked by future generations: How were the Saturns made? How did