Re: OAAHSTO - A Forgotten Idea Still In Use

In article <433b3378.342451@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
John Savard <jsavard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>What if the first stage of the Saturn V had let four of its five F-1
>engines drop part of the way up? (Along with being made somewhat larger,
>to hold a little more fuel and oxidizer, I suspect.) Would then only one
>more stage, rather than two, have served to send men to the Moon?

Unlikely. Such a scheme was investigated, as an upgrade. It would have
been a useful improvement -- and the resulting S-ID stage would have had a
significant payload into LEO all by itself -- but it probably wouldn't
have been enough to cut a whole stage off.
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