Re: Space Access Update #112 9/19/05
In article <d19c0$434bfbe9$927a2ce9$17443@xxxxxxxx>,
Jeff Findley <jeff.findley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>...The only reason Skylab got a Saturn V was because the
>budget cuts were so bad that NASA didn't even get to fly as many Apollo
>missions as they had originally planned...
No, not correct. Skylab was switched to a Saturn V at a time when NASA
still had some faint hope for resumed Saturn V production. Only six
months later did they finally concede that it was going to be necessary to
cancel Apollo 20 to free up a Saturn V.
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Relevant Pages
- Re: what was Apollo 1s mission to be?
... NASA was constantly changing the schedules, so this should be looked at ... A suborbital launch vehicle development test of the Saturn IB was ... An Apollo CSM was not flown on this flight. ...
(sci.space.history) - Re: Buran evolution - wish I understood Russian!
... I think testing was lacking a bit during Apollo, due to the schedule pressure, especially when it came to the Saturn V. Saturn IB had quite a few flights under its belt before it carried people. ... On STS-1 we did the first all-up manned test of a launch vehicle, and particularly given all the fixes and tweaks we've made to the design since, that looks like a completely crazy idea in retrospect. ... If you had told the people that designed Apollo that's what you had in mind for the first Apollo test flight- you were going to launch the first Apollo CSM manned on the first Saturn V, loop the moon with it and bring it back home, they would have thought you were out of your mind. ... At the time it seemed rational to do STS-1 like that, but in retrospect the idea was crazy; the Shuttle should have been given a automatic landing system and flown unmanned like Buran on its first flight. ...
(sci.space.history) - Re: Apollo Mission designators
... > first manned Apollos atop Saturn I vehicles that used the S-IV second ... before the first manned mission, ... get off a manned Apollo flight before the end of the year." ... launch vehicles to be used in initial manned Apollo missions. ...
(sci.space.history) - Re: Apollo astronaut who was going to wear large baseball cap over space suit
... > abandon all hope of resuming Saturn V production in the near future... ... I think there was no realistic hope of a restart, hence I date the cap to ... > wouldn't be soon enough for Apollo 20. ...
(sci.space.history) - Re: doing it again (was Re: STS51L Accident Questions)
... reverse the Saturn V retirement, continue low-rate production of the Apollo ... Perhaps the second Skylab ... If the "wet" lab concept proved ...
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