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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | The complete story of the Saturn V Rocket is presented in this detailed history of each stage of the construction and testing process. From the drawing boards of Boeing, North American Aviation, and the Douglas company, through shipping materials on massive Super Guppy air transports, prototype engine firings, and wind tunnel tests, and finally to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center, every stage of the planning, production, and actual flight of the rocket is meticulously documented. The lives of the first 45 rocket stages built for the Saturn project are charted, including unprecedented information on the dates, times, and performance parameters for each stage, the facilities used in production, rare documentation of the stages that malfunctioned and the engines that exploded along the way. Details on the development of the F1 and J2 rocket engines and recently declassified photographs of the Saturn project are also included.
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Alan Lawrie | | Paperback: | 328 pages | | Publisher: | Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc. | | Publication Date: | July 01, 2005 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1894959191 | | Package Length: | 9.9 inches | | Package Width: | 6.9 inches | | Package Height: | 0.9 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 13 reviews |
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18 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 Not Saturn but the Saturn V manufacturing archives!!! Aug 26, 2005
By spaceman
"Jim"
"Saturn" is what the cover says, but open the book and you find the real name and importance of this book. "Saturn V - the complete manufacturing and test records".
This is what todays' engineers and rocket scientists have been
looking for to assist them in the construction of the next heavy lift booster to get us back to the Moon and Mars, and every fan of the Saturn- Apollo program will HAVE TO HAVE THIS BOOK IN THEIR LIBRARY!
Many of these records were misplaced and presumed lost after Project Apollo, as NASA had not the funds to care and file them. But Alan Lawrie and Robert Godwin searched archives around the United States and England(?) to reconstruct them for
this book. This new publication tells what happened to each and every stage of every Saturn -V launch vehicle ever assembled, even the ones that were not used!
It begins with the rare Saturn V news reference to give the reader a familiarity with the Saturn. Then it documents the facilities and transportation methods, and then the engines themselves and then each vehicle built.
The book goes into the construction, movement, testing, assembly and launch. It goes into the test stands and tells what happened before the fliight versions were built and it details every test firing of every rocket engine for the mighty Moon rocket.
How many people know that the third stage for the first manned flight to the Moon (Apollo-8), exploded on the test stand (S-IVB 503) and had to be replaced (S-IVB 503-N for New construction)? and that Apollo-16's Saturn V first stage
(S1C-11) caught fire on the test stand and took a year to rebuild, and almost delayed the Apollo-11 which was on the launch pad counting down for it's historic mission?
The book sadly concludes with the rare Saturn V payload planners guide that details how Saturn could easily have allowed us to launch probes around the Solar System.
A lesson that we hope is not lost on the new generation.
Every major director and engineer of every major contractor who is planning to build the new launch vehicle will want to buy this book, because they no longer have to go thru the NASA archives digging and hoping to find these nuggets of information
about how we did it before!
The bonus DVD/ROM includes the vehicle records and films of Saturn assembly, and various tests firings.
ERRORS- The color section has a photo of the stacking of the Apollo space craft on the third stage of Apollo-Saturn 500F that is wrongly listed as erection of the launch escape system for Apollo 6 two years before this happened?
S-IVB-DF (pg255) wasn't this kept at JSC until the late 80's as part of the public tour of Skylab?
DVD-Video?ROM disc menu in back- First test firing of S-1C-T at Mississippi testb Facility March 1967? ...or 1965!
AN EXCELLENT BOOK- AND A MUST FOR ALL APOLLO FANS!
13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
The Best Saturn V Reference To Date Nov 11, 2005
By Robert I. Hedges
Alan Lawrie and Robert Godwin are to be commended for assembling this fine volume on the Saturn V. The Apogee series is the best set of books on space ever assembled, and this volume documents an often overlooked part of the Apollo program, the booster development and history of the Saturn V. Although the earlier Saturns are mentioned in passing, this is essentially devoted to the larger Saturn V.
The book details design and history of all stages and engines by serial number. All stages including test stages and battleships are detailed as are all test runs. The technical data including configuration changes are well documented for all engines and stages, and the history of the test areas and test stands are also addressed.
Despite the fact that a large part of the book is a historical stage by stage accounting, the book is still quite readable and enjoyable to a space enthusiast. Certainly, this is not a book for the casual reader, but the Apollo-phile will love the newly revealed information that has been unearthed for the first time in thirty years.
Also included is a DVD which features even more technical and production data in PDF format, as well as wonderful films of Apollo stage production, testing, and the Apollo 11 launch, the last four minutes of which are synchronized with the MOCR audio recording. The editing of the videos is a bit choppy at times, but the material is so good that I can't imagine any serious complaints.
This is a great volume, and I highly recommend it to anyone with a deep interest in space.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Everything you always wanted to know about the Saturn V program ... but didn't know who to ask Sep 03, 2005
By Dr. Geoffrey Statham
This book appears at a very timely moment: after more than thirty years there's finally a new commitment to go back to the Moon, and to go beyond. Lot's has been lost - or at least misplaced - in those thirty years. What did it take to transform the Saturn V from design into reality? How was it done? What had to be built? What had to be tested? When, where and how was it all done? What worked the first time around, and what didn't?
To answer these questions one would need to search through a mountain of data, which has been archived away in a host of obscure (and sometimes unlikely) places. Fortunately the authors of "Saturn" have performed this Herculean task, and have also managed to produce a surprisingly readable and coherent narrative. They've also managed to unearth some truly unique archived movie footage showing ground transport of the various stages as well as numerous test firings. This is all included on the DVD that accompanies the book. The DVD also contains an excellent movie of the Apollo XI launch - which, for ten minutes, transported me all the way back to 1969, as well as bringing a tear to my eye. [The book's worth the price just for the DVD alone!]
This book is a `must' for all those with an interest in the history of this great - and seminal - engineering achievement. Even more important, it's a `must' for all those who are about to embark on the next great adventure to the Moon and beyond.
Mandatory reading (and viewing) for the next generation of space engineers, as well as space enthusiasts of any generation!
Most highly recommended!
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
A great review of the Saturn launch vehicle family Jun 16, 2006
By S. Laidlaw
"Spacefan"
The already impressive and prodigious output of Apogee has been further enhanced by this great volume on the Saturn launch vehicle program. The history of each piece of hardware is detailed along with each mission. As the distance in years between the events and our recollection of them grows, this volume preserves detail that may otherwise have disappeared into government archives or otherwise be lost forever before we return to the moon again.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
All about SATURN V in one book Sep 14, 2005
By Florian Rohrmayr
For everyone who wants to know everything about the history, development, building and testing of the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, the SATURN V, this book is a must have, I would say a scale-setting book. Not only that the reader gets an enourmous never published amount on data, photos, drawings and information, but the author Alan Lawrie has also added a DVD to the book, which contains rare and never seen movies of test firings of the various SATURN V stages and engines (F-1, J-2) from different angles.
You will like these movies which show the raw power of the mighty SATURN V engines, as well as the assembly of the SATURN V in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center.
In the first part of the book all the components of the rocket like engines and stages are explained very detailed, as well as the manufacturing-/ transport-processes and the various facilities to built the SATURN V. In the second part of his book, the author described very detailed and visualized by many photos, each stage from all ever built SATURN V rockets reaching from manufacturing and transport to testings in
chronological order. At the end of the book a payload planners guide of the SATURN V shows the versatility and the potential of this rocket.
After reading this book you will have no more questions left on the SATURN V! You can also find very detailed historic-, testing- and manufacture-data of each engine and each SATURN V stage ever built, on the included DVD. This book closes a big gap in documenting the SATURN V rocket!
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