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SATURN'S APRIL
S. AKENS
FIRST ELEVEN
1957 through APRIL First Edition:
1963
Second Edition: Third Edition: Fourth Edition: Fifth Edition:
1965 1967 1969 1971
YEARS 1968
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
227
APPENDICES GLOSSARY REFERENCES INDEX
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SATURN ILLUSTRATED CHRONOLOGY In April
1957
the
scientific
organization
directed
by Dr. Wernher von Braunbegan studies which led to Saturn, America's first rocket developed for space investigation. The team at Redstone Arsenal, that
Alabama,
could
carry
hoped 20,000-
for orbital missions payloads for escape booster In
stages
December
working (ABMA), of Defense was
aim
essential.
1957
the
with the proposed (IX)D).
an integrated
this much
program. pounds
8
7. p_
payloads
12,000-pound High-thrust
Braun
! At that time
development with 1,500,000
clustering four E-1 engines.
von
to
vehicles
group,
then
Army Ballistic Missile Agency a program to the Department
of the proposed
To secure
launch
to 40,000-pound or 6000missions.
were
considering
vehicle booster
to design
the missile
United and
~
States space
Creation of a of thrust was the
program. power
ABMA
380, 000-pound
first
considered
thrust
Rocketdyne
4
.J.
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY
i SATURN BOOSTER
I. Proposed conliguration ol a clustered booster. This
initial
time
required
concept
type engine. to determine be used. OnAugust jects
was
to
However, if engines
15, 1958,
Agency
discarded
complete
ABMA already
the
(ARPA)
because
of the
development continued developed
Advanced
formally
of this studies could
Research initiated
Pro-
what
was
2o Thor-Jupiter engine 3, Booster tooling to become
the
Saturn
project.
The
separately organized research and arm of the Department of Defense, ABMA to conduct a research and program
at
Redstone
Arsenal
for
poundthrustvehiclebooster. able rocket engines
would
design
would be tested
by a full-scale
by the
end
agency,
a
development authorized development a 1,500,000-
A number be clustered.
of availThis
static
firing
of 1959.2
The liquid oxygen for the Redstone
(LOX) and and Jupiter
fuel tanks missiles
developed could be
AUGUSTmodified
for
use
in the
existing engine, the and Jupiter missiles, duce an increased Numerous
tools
Redstone with
and
DECEMBER
proposed
booster.
S-3D, used on both could be modified thrust of 188,000
and
fixtures
Jupiter
program
comparatively
little
of some couldbe
As
step
an
immediate
Rocketdyne on September
for
be used
In October jectives.
After the
1958
modification.
advanced vehicle ARPA
Complex
34, Cape Canaveral
booster
significantly
it
com-
shortened
was
awarded Aviation the Thor-
redesign, simplification, engine would be the H-1. expanded carrier
its
program capable
of be as
V.
study stage
a complete vehicle system so that upperselection and development could begin, and
initiated launch
a study facilities
launch
vehicle, authorized
requested
vehicle
ob-
space missions would was tentatively identified Redstone
personnel
of Atlantic Missile Range which could accommodate s
Later, the
on Army
Command (AOMC) to begin and construction of a captive
Launch
Thus
Juno
ARPA
4_ EarlyI-I,1Engine 5. Preliminaryconceptof
the
development with Time for design
a contract
ARPA
A multistage
performing built. The
also
Division of North American 11, 1958, to uprate S-3D,
Jupiter engine. and modification,
the Thor to propounds.
developed
important
ponents and tooling and cost reduced.
An
could
was possible to begin booster hardware of proven reliability. and development
1958
December Ordnance design, static
to
(AMR) the
11,
1958,
Missile
modification, test tower and
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
facilities gram.
for use in the booster development AOMC was also to determine the
requirements While
CHRONOLOGY
for
the
necessary
launch
booster-vehicle
formulated
and
facility
Concurrently studies of
with
were
a larger
January
1959,
to design, designated
large
rocket
Rocketdyne
while, visited large
site was
launch
On
10,
stand
1959.
for
Mean-
at Cape
Saturn B 7, SatUrn C
6_
Canaveral,
34). A design contract a movable structure which and service
3 an ARPA
the large representatives
National
test
the vehicle
pedestal.
February
renamed ARPA
generate 1,500,000
of the ARPA board selection of a site for
to assemble
launch
200'
On
1959, a contract had been of the blockhouse at the
(Launch Complex also awarded for
on the
DIA
by contract
would
static
facilities
By February for construction
would be used
120"
lity
engine.
agreed
January
representatives to discuss
vehicle
Florida. awarded
ABMA
began
Army AMR
engine,
feasibi
and test such an engine, This engine, burning LOX
of the
boosters
H-1
to the
and RP-1, a kerosene-type fuel, a very high thrust, approximately pounds. Construction
on
California.
of the
pertaining
develop, as the F-1.
being
work
Park,
development
single-chamber
9,
4
The first full-power in December 1958 at
in Canoga
conducted
was
development
the H-1 engine continued. H-1 engine firing occurred the Rocketdyne
facilities.
program
expanded,
prodesign
Vehicle
launch
Program
memorandum vehicle presented to the
/
officially
project Saturn. the proposed President
and
the
National Aeronautics and Space Council on March 2, 1959. Included were the proposed Saturn B and
C vehicle
On March
systems,
13 ABMA
submitted
of the Saturn System that either an Atlas the second May
ARPA
stage
to ARPA
the
results
Study. This study indicated or a Titan could be used as
of the
decided
304'
j
proposed
that
modified
vehicle. Titan
6 During hardware
2_b _
DECEMBER could
be
used
third stage vehicle. By April (H-1001)
for
could
the
second
use
28 the had been
on May 26,
began
using Titan and Atlas stages 9, Atlas Centaur vehicle (Centaur second stage) showing ao Atlas stage, b_ second stage, c_ payload. d_ electronic and guidance package, e. liquid hydrogen tank, it LOX tank, and h, RP-I tank 9
ACKAGE
.existing
to
STAGE I
HYDROGEN TANK P_AYLOAD GUIDANCE LIQUID OXYGEN TANK
ATLAS ls_
STAGE[
LOX
TANK
RP-1
TANK
[
later used success-
of the Saturn 34 began
support
Director
boosters
ARPA
then
house
and
second
the
Saturn
of Defense
blockat Cape airshops
project.
Research
and
Force and ARPA to of the Saturn second
or
development
ordered
cessation
contractor
work
stage.
An
continued
of the
exception
onthe
of the
bination authorized
was
proposed
booster
In September and the Air
AOMC
made
ARPA, toward
inTitan
of some with
stage.
Saturn-Dyna
early
ones.
to the
connected
Saturnbooster
were in progress, ABMA to proceed
Saturn
of new
relating
preliminary work not directly stage diameter. 8
the
LIQUID 2nd
Centaur
stage and the booster for the proposed Dyna Soar; requirements for these stages appeared to be similar. Untilreviewofthis, neither agency was to make a firm commitment for the redesign of
studies IC
modified
that
On July 27whenthe last Jupiter completed, Redstone Arsenal
in July the
Work LECTRON
the
and
of this engine, was performed
Engineering notified the Air consider common development
8_ Vehicles
stage
1959.7
retooling
Late
1959
first production H-1 engine delivered on schedule to ABMA.
On July 5, 1959, construction house for Launch Complex Canaveral. frame was
- SEPTEMBER
a slightly
ABMA's first firingtest inthe first test booster, fully
1958
the
While
Soar
com-
on August 1, captive firing
in 1960.
representatives Force presented
of AOMC, NASA, Saturn, Nova, and
Titan C systems to the Booster Evaluation Committee of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. On the basis of these presentations ARPA chose Saturn.
ARPA
scientists
determine
which
could
best
then carry
requested the
Saturn
that
Redstone
configurations
NASA payloads.
SATURN During vehicle and
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY
October 1959 configurations
consideration of Saturn continued. On October 29
30 ABMA
Study to ARPA Administration stage
presented
a second
Saturn
configurations
and
which
ARPA
an engineering
System
and National Aeronautics and Space ( NASA), proposing various upperoffered
increased
load capability and growth potential. 1959, after evaluation of previous NASA
10
requested
study
pay-
In December presentations,
that
AOMC
for a three-stage
prepare
Saturn
con-
figuration. Because of its large size and weight, the Saturn booster could not be transported by air or land. Water transportation appeared most feasible, and 11
\
ARPA,
on October
23,
1959,
authorized
AOMC
to
proceed with engineering Thesewouldbe located
work for dock on the Tennessee
the southern boundary December AOMC was
of Redstone Arsenal. In further authorized to con-
structthe port
the
facilities booster
On November of the Saturn from ARPA.
and to build to Cape
a barge
to'trans
Canaveral.
18 NASA assumed
technical
project pending Administrative
its formal direction
tainedby ARPA until March fer of both administrative would become effective.
facilities. River at
direction transfer was re-
16, 1960, when transand technical direction
-
10, H-1 engine in alignment [ixture 11_ Model ot blockhouse at Launch Complex 34
OCTOBER On
December
Committee a decision This from
15 (the
the
Saturn
Vehicle
Silverstein
on Saturn
upper-stage
burning initial
a long-range vehicle with
liquid vehicle,
stepping stone building-block
hydrogen identified
reached
configurations.
of representatives and the Air Force, development upper-stage
and as
to a larger concept was
1959
Evaluation
Committee)
committee, composed NASA, ARPA, DOD,
recommended for a Saturn
- DECEMBER
liquid C-l,
vehicle, proposed
program engines
oxygen. The was to be a the C-2. A that would
yield a variety of Saturn configurations, each u sing previously proven developments as far as possible. These recommendations were accepted by the NASA
Administrator.
ten-vehicle
OnDecember
program
was
31,
established,
1959,
a
s
The C-1 vehicle configuration included the S-I, the S-IV, and the S-V stages. The S-I stage would have eight H-1 engines. Fueled by LOX/RP-1, the
12 C-1and
earlier vehicles: a_ Redstone, b° Jupiter-C, c, Mercury Redstone, d: Jupiter, e Juno 11, and L Saturn C-1 13. Proposed C-2
engines
clustered
were
expected
to produce
12
13
95'
5'
3_
_2
l_
RE
JUPITER L
JUNO
g
I
a
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 14
total stage
of 1,500,000 was conceived
oxygen-liquid ducing
pounds of thrust. of as a four-engine
hydrogen
a total
of
fueled
80,000
unit
capable
pounds
Saturn
project
was
1960, as aprogramofthe ( DX rating).
approved highest
To develop the second sought a contractor. this
S-IV
stage
26 and 27,
1960.
By February
submitted
contract
Redstone
Arsenal
the first
stage.
to prove
out
scientists By 1960
the
engines provide
national
January
had
The
clustered
the
as an
on January
cerning companies
of pro-
held
started formal booster
at
18,
priority
stage of Saturn C-1, Abidder's conference was
S-IV liquid
of thrust.
S-V stage would use two of the same the S-IV stage and this stage would additional 40,000 pounds of thrust. The
The
NASA con-
Huntsville, 29 twelve proposals. to work
test
on
program
concept
was
14.,
Booster
15_
Second
15
stage stage
(S-I) (S-IV)
JANUARY
16
to
and
stand
and to test servicing methods. This mockup removed from the test stand and the complete
was test
booster,
check
mating
SA-T,
February
was
Later
18+
installed
booster
in its
place
during
executive order transferring to NASA became effective.
in the monthtwo
engines
of the
I960.
During March the the Saturn program
Third stage (S-V) Saturn test boostassembly to test
1960
wellunder way. A mockup of the Saturn booster was installed in the ABMA test stand on January 4, 1960,
16, 1 7_ Moving er from
- APRIL
passed
an
of Saturn's initial
eight
static
10
first-stage
firing
test
of
I7
Booster in test stand 18
i lI
approximately was identified firing of occurred 02),
on
eight seconds' duration. as number SAT-01, the
the Saturn test booster on March 28. _l In a second April
6,
four
engines
were
This first
test live
(SA-T). It test (SATsuccessfully
static fired for seven seconds. All eight engines of the test booster were successfully fired on April 29 in an eight-second test. 12
9
SATURN On
ILLUSTRATED
May
CHRONOLOGY
17 a second eight-engine static firingof
24 seconds'
duration generated
a thrust of 1.3
million pounds. The third successful engine firing lasted 35 seconds. 13 Meanwhile, received
NASA
reviewed
in February.
the
S-IV
On April
Douglas Aircraft Company and build the second stage.
eight-
proposals
26 NASA awarded
a contract
to develop
During May been selected
NASA announced that Rocketdyne had to develop the high-thrust J-2 engine.
This engine, Committee
of the type in December
hydrogen-liquid advanced Saturn The first numbered
oxygen. vehicle.
ten from
the
prototype
On
May
by the Silverstein would burn liquid
It would
be used
in an
Saturn flight vehicles would SA-1 to SA-10. SA-10 would of the
26,
defined 1959,
1960,
for the first Huntsville.
operational
Saturn.
assembly
Saturn
be be
197 Booster static firing 20_ Model of J-2 engine
of the
flight
booster
vehicle
stage
began
19
in
if
On July 1, 1960, the Saturn program was formally transferred to the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). 14 A second series of static tests had just been successfully stage of Saturn C-1.
completed
on the
!i
first
W"
On July 26 NASA signed
a supplemental
with Douglas second stage.
Company covering would design, develop,
fabricate
the
Contracts Pratt
Aircraft Douglas four-engine
were
also
& Whitney
engines;
the
S-IV
to develop
LR-119,
anuprated
to generate
17,500
On
14,
10
August
responsible of the C-1
LR-115 pounds
1960,
10,
1960,
and produce would
engines to the contractors the S-IV and S-V stages
the and
stage.
let on August
Government
agreement
engine,
furnish
with
LR-119 these
for building vehicle. The was
expected
of thrust.
construction
began
on
the
2O
'_
•
.
MAY
- AUGUST
1960
21
_2
21. 22 23
Assembly of main LOX tank for SA-I booster Assembly Structural
of tanks on SA-1 booster fabrication of SA-I booster
23
11
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY
24
24_ Installation o[ engines on SA-I booster 25, Initial con[iguration o[ the S-IV stage 26, Construction o[ service tower and pedestal
movable
service
at
Canaveral.
On
Cape
August
15
assistance to
Dyna
in Soar.
MS FC agreed
structure
the
Air
planning After on October
for
Force the
Launch
Complex
requested application
conferring 6 to provide
25
NASA of
with
34
Air
Saturn Force,
a preliminary
study.
26
12
27. Unveiling bust o[ General George C. Marshall 28° Dr_ yon Braun and President Eisenhower 29_ Mr_ Glennan, President E isenhower, and Dro yon Braun 30_ Proposed Saturn C-I Apollo Configuration
AUGUST 27
On September Aeronautics ville,
and
1960
- JANUARY
8 the facilities of Space Administration
Alabama,
were
dedicated
the
1961
National at Hunts-
and designated
as
the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. President Eisenhower, Mrs. George C. Marshall, NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan, and many other
national,
ticipated
state,
in the
and
local
dignitaries
par-
ceremony.
28 On October 21 NASA contract for a second October
awarded to Convair a study upper stage, the S-V. On
25 NASA selected
Convair,
General
Elec-
tric, and Martin to conduct individual feasibility studies of an advanced manned spacecraft as part of Project
Apollo.
MSFC
started
of the
test
a new booster
configuration 2, 1960. was first.
tests 20,
eight engines. booster stage was
was 1960,
the
SA-T1)
firing
tests
SA-1
flight
on December
firing.
completed
successfully
series
concluded firing
December.
on of all
of the tanks Saturn flight
during
began
Convair
The
by a 60-second
Fabrication of the second
of the booster
In January 30
to
in a six-second
December
bly
of static
An eight-engine test lastingtwo seconds The next week a test of two engines
of booster
(SA-2)
series (modified
and designated
was conducted
29
15
for the vehicle Assem-
immediately.
Astronautics
submitted
a pro-
posal foranS-Vupper stage for the Saturn vehicle; however, later in the month Dr. von Braun proposed that three-stage of the
the C-1 vehicle be changed from a to atwo-stage configuration in support
Apollo
requirements
program. for
the
NASA decided S-V
stage
on C-1
On January 16 the booster stage for vehicle was moved from assembly During Saturn
January booster
Development
the to
to delete vehicles.
SA-1 flight checkout.
also, wind tunnel testingof a model began at the Arnold Engineering Center,
Tullahoma,
tests were designed to nomena of the clustered
study stage.
Tennessee; base
heating
the phe-
13
SATURN Two
ILLUSTRATED
additional
CHRONOLOGY
studies
began
in January
1961.
NASA awarded North American and Ryan nautical Company contracts to investigate bility
of recoveringthe
S-I
booster
stage
flight contract
by using a Rogallo was awarded for
paraglider. equipment
would
be used
at MSFC
out the
to check
Aerofeasi-
after
vehicle design
3I
the A
which
S-I
stage
automatically. On January study S-II
25 stage
a meeting was held at MSFC to requirements for the Saturn C-2
vehicle.
S-II
stage
trajectory,
32
performance,
and structural analysis calculations were completed and made a part of the preliminary SaturnDyna Soar proposal. 1G During January a dummy of the S-IV stage completed at MSFC and moved to checkout. January 31 MSFC static fired all eight the SA-T1 test booster for 113 seconds, A dummy
S-V
received to the
stage,
from dummy
assembly
built
Convair S-IV
for
use
stage.
of the complete
The C-1
plished during February. static tests on February
of
was
8 and mated first
vehicle
MSFC 14.
engines 1T
on SA-1,
on February
was On
horizontal was
accom-
completed SA-T1 By February 27
Convair hadprovided MSFC with a second dummy S-V stage. 58 This stage would first be used during dynamic the
tests
dummy
Liquid
of a complete
S-V would
hydrogen
to studies
early
dummy
be used
engine
development
in March
vehicle;
on a flight
later vehicle.
problems
to determine
the
led possi-
bility of using the first-generation Centaur engine on the Saturn S-IV than second-generation Centaur LR-119.
LR-115 type stage, rather engine, the
Meanwhile, the booster was removed stand on March 2 and loaded aboard
from the test the Palaemon
for river trials. part of the booster
Also on recovery
at
to determine
Cape
reusing 14
Canaveral H-1
engines
after
March 2, 1961, as a studies, tests began
exposure
the
feasibility to salt
31_ 32, 33_ cept
water.
of
33
SA-1 Checkout Saturn booster recovery C-2 Second Stage con-
JANUARY
-
MARCH
1961
34
34. Movement of dummy S-IV stage to checkout 35, First horizontal mating of the Saturn vehicle 36, Removal o[ the booster [ron_ the static test stand
35
36
15
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
Construction
work
to progress
at Launch
satisfactorily,
ture, blockhouse, pletion. On
March
MSFC March
CHRONOLOGY
with the
and gas
7 the
Complex
SA-1
booster
was
static test stand for preflight 14 the Palaemon, carrying
the MSFC dock on its
first
training
ing its return the test booster for modification to the SA-T2 booster,
service
facilities
struc-
nearing
com-
moved
to the
checkout. the SA-T1, trip.
shops Look-
ingbeyond
the
in March personnel
of a facility to be used in familiarizing with the handling of liquid hydrogen.
MSFC presented the C-2 program
plans and
in the
S-IV
construction
38
on March 23 to accelerate recommended that a prime
contractor be selected MSFC also recommended gines
began
On left
Follow-
went to MSFC configuration.
MSFC
37
34 continued
stage
to develop the S-II stage, use of six LR-115 eninstead
of four
LR-1
19
engines. Pratt plying contractor.
& Whitney would still be the supMSFC then proposed certain
design
in the
changes
S-!
stage
including
crease in propellant capacity, the addition and increased structural support for later of the booster. On March quarters
29,
]961,
approval
for the
39
received
six-engine
NASA
Head-
configuration 40
,/
16
MSFC
an inof fins, versions
37_ Salt water test o[ H-I engine 38. Facilities construction at Launch Complex 34 39° The barge Palaemon 40° Redesigned tail of the Saturn booster
MARCH 41
of the S-IV. 19On Mar ch 31 NASA approved ation
of the
C-2
program
and
During eerning
March engines
common On
April
objective the study
by 10
both
from development an engine that the
NASA
Centaur announced
first
with
were made conMSFC decided of the LR-] could be used
and the the
of developing an orbiting of effects of radiation
weightlessness,
of the
escape mission. a two-phase pro-
further decisions for the S-IV stage.
to redirect effort to the RL10-A-1,
1961
ac c el er-
development
C-2 vehicle for a three-stage MSFC was authorized to begin curement of an S-II stage. 2o
41_ Six-engine configuration o! the S-IV stage 42. Artist's concept of Apollo capsule 43° Air transport of S-IV stage
- APRIL
animals
S-IV
Project
]9 in
stage. Apollo
laboratory for and prolonged and later
with
42
43
17
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
a three-man crew. that air transport Douglas
had
stages
During April Douglas for the S-IV stage was
been
transportation reduce the
CHRONOLOGY
authorized
in 1960 to study
for S-IV stages. time which would
were
moved
by
MSFC at Huntsville,
The use of gliders, the stages was also
On April
17 the
to
Canaveral.
ballasted S-Ibooster,
from
and thence
Florida. to carry
Cape
This would be required
water
Palaemon The
tank simulating plus adummy
air
greatly if the
California
to Cape
44
reported feasible.
to
Canaveral,
blimps, and considered.
aircraft
began
its first
trial
barge
carried
a water-
the size and weight S-V stage for the
run of the SA-1.
The barge reached Cape Canaveral on April 30. After rehearsing movement of the booster along roads at the Cape, the simulator was reloaded aboard
the
mained
at
Palaemon.
The
the
On May
Cape.
its return trip, dock May 15.21
arriving
MSFC completed tower left
dummy
at the
construction
S-V
3 the
stage
barge
Redstone
45
46
rebegan
Arsenal
of the dynamic
test
on April 17, the same day that the Palaemon for Florida. The dynamic tower permits
checkout vehicle,
of and
natural
the mechanical mating of the C-1 aids in determining the vehicle's
bending
simulated
flight
characteristics
and
the
effect
of
vibrations.
44. Booster simulator loaded aboard Palaernon 45_ the 46. to
MSFC held a Saturn S-II preproposal conference April 18; the first phase of S-II procurement was expected to begin during May. On April 21 Douglas reported stage
to MSFC
that
development
generated
during
was engine
the
major
problem
disposal
terminated
47
gas
flight was
prematurely
qualification successfully
30-second booster,
test. May 5,
because
of a "4;
problem the 18
fire
which detection
caused system.
a shutdown 22
signal
through
sim_Iator the
at
Palaemon
Canaveral
47. Installing Dynamic Test
in S-IV
of hydrogen
accomplished in an eight-engine, A second static firing of the SA-1 was
Cape
chilldown.
On April 29, 1961, the first test (SA-01) of the SA-1 booster
1961,
Unloading Cape Route of
being
dummy Tower
S-I
on
APRIL A third booster,
eight-engine performed
static May
- MAY
1961
firing test of the SA-1 11, lasted 111 seconds
and was satisfactory. Meanwhile, assembly of the SA-2 flight vehicle continued, and fabrication of the LOXand fuel tanks for the SA-3 vehicle was begun.
2s
In May 1961 NASA March 48
proposal
Headquarters
to incorporate
MSFC's
changes
into
the S-I stage of the C-1 vehicle. The changes would permit the C- 1 to be used as a two- or threestage
vehicle
quirements This change S-V stage missions. examination configuration missions.
possessing for the eliminated
with the
satisfactory
C-1
except
Alsoduring of the
safety
re-
two-stage manned mission. the immediate need for an May capabilities
for 1961
possible MSFC of the
special began
Saturn
reC-2
to support lunar circumnavigation Results of this examination indicated
that a Saturn vehicle would be desirable. 48_ Positioning [light booster in test stand 49. Con[igurations o[ Saturn [light vehicles 50, Separation o[ upper stages from booster
accepted design
of even
greater
performance
49
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SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
On May 18 began when capability ment
CHRONOLOGY
the first phase MSFC requested proposals
of
the
for
stage.
of S-II procurement industry to prepare
the
Also
design during
and
develop-
May
Pratt
&
Whitney shippeda mockup of the RL10-A-3 engine to Douglas and Convair for checks to assure that the engine was physically compatible S-W stage and the Centaur vehicle. activities a contract could
in May the Martin to study launch
be used
Project
in lunar
Apollo
Company was awarded vehicle systems which
exploration
flights.
with both the Among other
beyond
These
the
studies
initial
transportation systems for a lunar landing immediate return for three men, a thirty-day on the moon for three base to accommodate
MSFC
tested
flight
the
vehicle
men, and a permanent 10 to 12 men.
S-IV
May
dummy
20-25,
1961.
testing the Center began to shipment to Cape Canaveral.
During June construction test site neared completion Sacramento LOX
the site storage S-IV
Test
facilities includes tanks hardware
stage
Facility
the
from
moon
the
SA-1
successful stage
for
Utilizing
earlier
two 90,000-gallon and test stands a
and stay
of the liquid hydrogen at Douglas Aircraft's (SACTO).
existing
under
for
After
ready
51
included
variety
programs,
liquid capable of
hydrogen of testing conditions. 52
20
510 Model ol the RLIO-A-3 engine 52, Testing o[ dummy S-IV stage
MAY 53
Engine
gimbal
April and increasing
ture --4"
54
of the
in the booster. the control S-I
was modified tests were ator
performed
at
MSFC
stage
To investigate engine support
of the
and a series
dynamic
1961
during
May had indicated the advisability the stiffness of the engine control
port structure matter further,
t,
tests
- JUNE
of supthis struc-
test
vehicle
of single-engine
gimbal
begun on May 29, 1961. As test results of marginal satisfaction, a new type of actuservo valve was installed. Further test
results
were
was moved and, for dummy vehicle
satisfactory.
to the dynamic the first time,
The
dummy
test stand vertically
S-IV and S-V stages. was then readied for
booster
early in June mated with
The dynamic
assembled testing.
24
During May and June 1961 Douglas Aircraft had continued fabrication of full-scale mockups of S-IV • t .L_ _
stage
_L-_._
sections.
the mating determine 53. Sacramento test facility 54° Dummy Saturn vehicle in dynamic test stand 56,
55. Forward
Tail Area interstage
mockup mock-
up
These
of different equipment
mockups sections locations.
are
used
of the
55
to check
stage
and
to
56
11 I
/
On June 2 a lock collapsed the Tennessee River. traffic trapped
was
halted.
in the upper
port the booster dam. There barge
to continue
at the Wheeler All movement
Because river,
g
the
MSFC
Dam on of river
Palaemon
decided
in it overland to a point below the stage would be reloaded the
trip
support this plan MSFC which had been mothballed
to Cape
was
to trans-
Canaveral.
the on To
obtained a Navy barge at Pensacola, Florida.
21
,
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
Necessary
modifications
barge, renamed S-I and dummy On June Canaveral
to NASA.
ance testing booster began
unit,
accomplished
that
the
new
could carry the dummy payload.
2s In Huntsville
final
Cape and
accept-
was
the
mechanical
containing
mating
stage. Design workfor also continued at MSFC.
15, 1961, a mockup portion of the vehicle
would Saturn
so
of the S-I stage for the first flight on June 12, 1961. The first opera-
the S-IV dummy Saturn vehicles June unit
began
the Compromise, S-IV stages and
5, 1961, Launch Complex 34 at was dedicated in a brief ceremony
turnedover
tion
CHRONOLOGY
57
of the new instrument was completed; this
guidance
fly above the C-1 vehicles.
of
later On
and
upper
instrumentation,
stages
of the
last
five
58
59
57. The barge Compromise 58, Launch Complex 34 59. Launch Complex 34, blockhouse interior 60. Instrument unit mockup 6O
I
Iit.._
I
-_,
On June
21 Phase
began.
Four
Phase
II meeting
After
a meeting
directed
II procurement
companies
at MSFC held
of the
were and
in June
that the S-IV stage
invited submit
with
von Braun
announced
engineering design would be discontinued;
be redesigned
directed Nova 22
toward concepts.
on June
stage the
proposals.
Douglas,
porate chilldown venting through which ed hydrogen gas could be disposed. Dr.
S-II
to attend
MSFC to incor-
accumulat-
23 that
further
work on the C-2 configuration effort would instead be re-
clarification Capabilities
of the of the
Saturn
C-3
proposed
and C-3
JUNE
- JULY 62
6!
61. 62, 63 64°
1961
Comparison of Saturn Possible Nova Con[igurations Proposed C-3/Apollo con[iguration Installation o[ SA-:T2 on static test stand 63
configuration in supporting would be determined. On June (the
27 the first
SA-T1
of the
64
booster
SA-2
complished 30-second
static
the
test
of the
modified
booster
Apollo
SA-T2
to the
stage)
was
mission
booster
configuration
successfully
ac-
at MSFC. This was an eight-engine, test to confirm effectiveness of the new
actuator servo valve trol engine support
and the structure.
During
in June
the last week
to Chrysler
Corporation
in the same
of a facility
a contract
of the
of quali-
testing on various engine, and structural components Another contractwas
month
to static
con-
was awarded
for performance
fication and reliability hydraulic, mechanical, of the Saturn booster. awarded
stiffening 26
for
test
preliminary
the
J-2
design
engine.
"1_
To commemorate Space the
Flight
Center
the first Center,
on July
anniversary
of Marshall
open
was
an 1,
1961.
house
Attending
held
were
at
such
national figures as the NASA Administrator, James Webb; the Director of NASA Launch Vehicle Programs, ous
Major
other
A few days
General
national, later
Don Ostrander; state,
dynamic
and testing
and
local
numer-
dignitaries.
of SA-D1
began
for the purpose of investigating the bending modes of the vehicle and also to continue studies into tank resonances
initiated
by Langley
Research
Center
23
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
during
June.
While
MSFC, Rocketdyne tests of a complete build up to 1.5 fected. Early
in July
CHRONOLOGY dynamic
in California F-1 engine.
million
pounds
MSFC awarded
polis-Honeywell
testing
for
proceeded
began static The engine of thrust
a contract
necessary
to study
vehicles
by
boosters" During second booster. reduce curtain
the
joining
with
feasibility
July MSFC successfully and third static firings 27 These tests evaluated engine structure materials, and
tion system
similar
when
vibration, checked
to that
used
per-
to Minneaand
Centaur guidAlso in July, to the Boeing
of creating
solid-propellant
liquid-propellant
65
firing would
engineering
manufacturing services to adapt the ance set to Saturn requirements. MSFC awarded a six-month contract Company
at
upper
huge
"superstages.
completed of the SA-T2 modifications evaluated out a LOX on SA-1.
the test to
66
flame depleDuring 68
67
•
24
JUNE 69
the
third
the
inflight
down
test
of
engine the
shutdown
MSFC
MSFC
of the
to
Other
components, for the ville.
Cape
by
the
the
new
giant
of
and Saturn
positions. Center
equipment,
dur-
merits
in
reliability
Canaveral,
Center's
Technology
vertical
and
construction at
shutbefore
California,
relative
and
support
is,
Space
of assembling
awarded
ground
building
Dr_ von Braun, James Webh, and Majo Geno Ostrander 66° H-1 and F-1 engine comparison IH-1 in foreground_ 67 Static firing of F-I engine 68_ Proposed solid propeI1;_nt boosters for large space vehicles 69. Static firing of SA-T2 70, Concept of new static test facility, MSFC 71. Artist's concept ol Apollo separation from second stage
the
qualification
Saturn
65, E_
to the
horizontal
contracts
included
that
time
seconds
Angeles,
investigate
in
first
1961
engines.
Los
problems
boosters
six
JULY
the
sequence,
a contract Inc.,
July,
for
engines
outboard
awarded
potential
cutoff
inboard
Laboratories, ing
simulated
-
July
testing
subsystems, a special
and
site
of and
assembly development
static
test
facility
Space
Task
Group
in Hunts-
70
71
Also
in July
companies lunar
NASAts to
Apollo
submit spacecraft.
contemplated stage
proposals
a
and awarded
( reactor-in-flight
Lockheed
Martin
Company.
Meanwhile,
contracts test)
for design
12
manned Center
Saturn
upper
a six-month
RIFT
analysis
Douglas Aircraft
invited the the
nuclear-powered
Dynamics/Astronautics, pany,
for
Aircraft
Corporation,
to General Comand
the
25
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
Assemblyofthe
CHRONOLOGY
booster
stage
for the
SA-3
vehicle
began on July 31, 1961. _ The following day the SA-2 booster was transferred front the assembly area to checkout. On August 3 a planned 114-second static test of the SA-T2 booster was terminated after
1.2
seconds
an unacceptably inlet on engine for the booster test.
when
instrumentation
high temperature No. 1. The test
following week. was successfully
indicated
of the LOX pump was rescheduled
On August 7 the SA-T2 fired in a 124-second 72
Checkout of the SA-1 flight booster, started in June, was completed early in August. _ The booster stage,
the dummy
S-iV stage,
and the
dummy
load body were shielded with protective covers loaded on their respective transporters. stages
and payioadbody
MSFC nessee
shops River
were
then
moved
from
to the docking facilities on the and loaded aboard the Palaemon.
August 5 the barge to Cape Canaveral•
payand The the TenOn
z
began the first leg of the trip At Wheeler Dam the units 74
73
72° Concept o[ Sm,_rn nuclear powered stage 73° Booster znovernent docking
t
26
76
to
[acility
74. round
Payload Wheeler
iHovement Darn
a-
75 round
Booster Wheeler
movement Dam
a-
76
S-I
aboard
75
with
and
S-IV
the Compromise
stages
JULY - AUGUST 1961 77
77_
Unloading
78, First erection at 79, 80.
S-IV
Compromise in Florida Saturn booster Cape Canaveral
erection
at Cape Canaveral Payload body erection into service structure h
78
were
unloaded,
dam,
and placed
mise,
to
On August and
transported on the the
15 the
Compromise
her
first
Early
in
vehicle
August
MSFC
a new 37)
completion support vehicle.
in
late
the high 31
launch
complex
rate
the
con-
( Launch
new
planned
for
complex for
would
the
Saturn
80
An F-1
engine
Force
after
up
On August base
space hicles. of land,
was
Base;
one
built
the
for
_0
Scheduled
79
Air
Cape
launchpedestal.
Canaveral.
launch
the
assembling
bids
the
Florida.
at
invited
1962,
the
Comproto
began
the
below
the trip
arrived on
Cape
dock
barge,
MSFC
Saturn
at
a
2200-mile
cargo;
flight
structionof Complex
second
continue
unloaded
the
to
and one
24
fired
on
although
the
one-half
million
for
all
missions NASA increasing
16 at
test
seconds, pounds
NASA
August
manned
would its
was
terminated
the
engine
had
Canaveral
as
of thrust.
designated
requiring
Edwards
Cape lunar
flights
advanced
and launch
secure
an
80,000-acre
total
area
in the
other vetract
vicinity
to 27
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
97,000 because
acres. The ofthetremendous
pected
with
later
On September owned Michoud as
the
stage. under
site the
continued estimates stage.
for
CHRONOLOGY
additional land was needed vibration and noise ex-
launch
vehicles.
7 NASA Ordnance
selected Plant
industrial
The plant technical
the near
GovernmentNew Orleans
production
of the
S-I
would be operated by industry direction of MSFC. MSFC
preparations from
81
for
industry
a conference on production
to secure of the
S-I
32
On September 11 NASA selected North American Aviation to develop and build the S-II stage for an advanced Saturn launch vehicle. The stage 82
81o First Saturn assembled on Launch pedestal 82. Saturn launch complex 37 83° Artist's concept of launch pedestal (or Launch Complex 37
will
be
used
in both
manned
and
unmanned
mis-
sions. Army Engineers awarded 13 for the construction
a contract of Launch
on September Complex 37 at
Cape Canaveral. The complex would include a mobile steel tower, a blockhouse, and a cable tower on a 120-acre site at the north end of the C ape. 28
83
SEPTEMBER-
OCTOBER
1961
84
84.
Michoud
plant
at
New
Orleans 85_ Saturn SA-1 Flight vehicle on launch pedestal 85
By
September
15,
1961,
the
SA-1
vehicle
was
completely assembled Launch Complex 34.
on the launch pedestal at The service structure was
moved would
the
back, leaving at launch.
Saturn
On September 26 a preproposal held at New Orleans to secure production
of the
September
30,
S-I
stage.
continued liquid
bids Four
of the Office
as
days
later,
ceremony Marshall Building.
on was
Center'
in September and October hydrogen test facility,
problems in the handling are studied. The SA-2
it
conference was for industrial
a ground-breaking
held to begin construction Central Laboratory and Testing Marshall
standing
s
at the where
and use of liquid hydrogen flight booster was installed
in the MSFC static test tower early in October. On October 10 a successful eight-engine, 33second test iSA-04) was performed to check reliability
and
systems. on October Test
of booster
and
gimbal
Test SA-05 was successfully conducted 24 for a duration of 112 seconds.
objectives
cutoff Late
performance
sequence. in October
in Mississippi static testing stages.
This
Facility
is only
included
evaluation
of the
flight
33
NASA
selected
on which Advanced location 35 miles
a 13,550-acre
site
to build a facility for Saturn and Nova first of the from
Mississippi the
Michoud
Test Plant 29
SATURN where
ILLUSTRATED industry
stages. The
would
CHRONOLOGY manufacture
first
launch
onOctober
27,
and weighing of 85 miles
Thebooster
of the
Saturn
and S-IC
1961.
The
followed
stage
vehicle,
produced
1,500,000 3600
November
6,
the
flight
1961,
new
OnNovember
NASA announced
to land
MSFC
directed
static
selection
19 the
signed
nation's
first
engine, the RL10, successfully preliminary flight rating test.
at
proposals
and production
of Chrysler
was
stand
for redesign of more than
Corporation
on November 17 to negotiate a contract check out, and test 20 S-I boosters. boosters would be manufactured at the
On November
North
test
NASA received
for the development Saturn booster.
contract
within
stage to incorporate a total of 1,000,000
in November thrust levels
10, 1961,
from five firms of the advanced
pounds
At a speed of hour the Saturn path
large-booster
MSFC was interrupted of the stand to accept 7.5 million pounds.
The
high
a height inboard
impact, over 214 miles The launch was considered
Americanto redesign the S-II five J-2 engines, providing pounds stage thrust. 36
Plant. 1962.37
place
162 feet rose.to The
1,300,000
pounds.) miles per
a precalculated
Work at the
took
the first four flight tests. the thrust would be in-
13 miles of predicted from Cape Canaveral. almost flawless. 3s
to build, These Michoud
in mid-January
liquid
hydrogen
completed its Producing 15,000
pounds thrust, the engine, designed and developed by Pratt & Whitney, performed about 30 percent 3O
86
down after 109 seconds of burning; engines cut off six seconds later.
of thrust intended for (On subsequent tests, creased to approximately
vehicle
460 tons at liftoff, during its journey.
engines shut the outboard
On
the S-I
34
86, Launch of Saturn SA-I flight vehicle 87. S-II stage cutaway 87
OCTOBER better
than
such
engines
engines
using
would
- DECEMBER
hydrocarbon
power
the
1961,
awarded
North
American
craft
Space
Center
Aviatiofl
vehicles
for
tests
Apollo
basic
missions:
flights, two-stage
project
of the
conducted quencing,
and com-
divided
flights,
and
LOX
into three circumlunar
off
last
SA-3
and
levels. at
design
of the
reentry
95
Saturn
The
seconds
by Chance-Vought initially to MSFC
test
5, 1961, Space
was
improvements. 70-inch
tanks
pre-
automatic
No hardware first of a series
in Dallas, and later
assembled
cutoff seand study
by the
by MSFC was completed 4. Future 70-inch tanks
On December (AEC)-NASA
modules advanced
circumlunar
to investigate flight an "engine out" test,
fire detection system. occurred. This was the to verify
command The
SA-T3 test stage was installed in On November 30, 1961, MSFC
tank
cut
Apollo period.
support
a test perform
maturely
Chrysler
be
orbital
prototype 1964-1965
C-5 would flights.
factured December
Space-
research
vehicle-payload
would
earth
Meanwhile, the the test stand.
The
Manned
C-1
and manned landingson the moon. The Saturn C-1 was to support earth-orbital
flights during
fuel
and the
a
project.
The
Saturn Apollo
a contract
and early systems tests of the The spacecraft was designated the name of the Saturn vehicle
also
missions
stage.
of its payload,
Center to use
development patibility spacecraft. Apollo,
Flight
planned
S-IV
Six
for development on November 29,
for the design and construction three-man spacecraft. Marshall
fuels.
Saturn
After this progress in arranging of a large launch vehicle NASA,
1961
damage of tests
38 to be manuthe would
Texas, and to Michoud
week of be built shipped for the
stages. Atomic Nuclear
Energy Commission Propulsion Office 31
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
selected the Corporation's engine used the
test
Aetron Division of Aerojet-General proposal as the basis for a Nerva stand
in nuclear Kiwi-B
proposal Alabama,
contract.
stages test
RIFT
series.
vehicle,
Marshall awarded 6 for modification for used
static
Two
(RIFT)
days
stage
planned vehicle, engine.
for
loading
Marshall
completed
a pre-
use
The summer
testingof
tests
vehicle.
as an upper
be powered
by
39 on December of the Center's
tower,
scheduled
of 1963, Chrysler
At the Douglas Sacramento Test prototype S-IV stage tankage propellant 1961.
be
from
later
launch
would
tower.
by the
for acceptance
would
derived
a design contract to the west side
test
completion
Nerva
was held at Huntsville, a prime contractor for the
test
stage of a Saturn the Nerva nuclear
existing
The
with a reactor
conference to select
reactor-in-flight The
CHRONOLOGY
begun
modifications
would S-I
be
stages.
Facility (SACTO), was installed and on
December
to the
11,
Saturn 88
A
32
88.
S-IV
te,st
facility
tankage
at
SACTO
DECEMBER
1961
89
90
90.
89, Barge Promise F-1 engine and test stand 91. S-IC stage 91
barge barge, ment stages day
Compromise on December 14, 1961. The renamed Promise, was readied for moveto Wheeler Dam where it would receive of the another
Rocketdyne rated 1.5 stage
SA-2 F-1
flight
engine
test facility. million pounds
vehicle.
test
was
On the performed
same at the
The engine reached its thrust in a short main-
firing.
NASA selected the Boeing Company on December 15 as a possible prime contractor for the first stage (S-IC) of the advanced Saturn vehicle. 4° The S-IC, powered 33feetin diameter
by five F-1 engines, would be and about 140 feet high. The
manufacturingprogram at Michoud was to produce 24 flight stages and one ground test stage. 42 In December MSFC awarded a contract to the MasonRust Company to perform administrative services Michoud Plant.
housekeeping and other at the New Orleans
33
,SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
NASA selected 1961,
CHRONOLOGY
Douglas
to negotiate
Aircraft
a contract
on December to modify
S-IV stage by installing a single engine of 200,000 pounds thrust. stage, a third
identified as the S-IVB, stage of the advanced
figuration.
J-2
the
21,
92
Saturn
J
Rocketdyne The modified
would Saturn
be used as C-5 con-
42
On December was officially
28, the Mississippi named Mississippi
by Dr.
C. Seamans
Robert
Test Facility Test Operations
of NASA
Headquarters.
Assembly of the SA-4 flight booster began January 2, 1962. The SA-3 booster successfully completed functional and pressure engine tests and entered
pre-static
NASA
announced
checkout on
on January
8, 1962.43
24
Aerojet-
January
that
93
General Corporation had been selected for design and development of a new liquid hydrogen engine. The engine, known as the M-l, was to power the second thrust MSFC
stage of the Nova would be 1,200,000 awarded
late in January tower
for
The tower
a contract
would
Complex carry
the
connections stages. 44
vehicle.
Its
92_ 93.
to Consteel-Ets-Hokin
for the construction
Launch
and hydraulic servicing upper
launch pounds.
of the
34 at Cape electrical, used
umbilical
94. SA-2 pedestal
Canaveral. pneumatic,
in
fueling
and
94
34
S-IVB Saturn
stage C-5 erected
cut:_way on la,nch
DECEMBER On January ment of the the
25, 1962, three-stage
direction
port
landings method.
NASA Saturn
of MSFC.
manned
1961 - MARCH
by earth The C-5
approved developC-5 vehicle under
The
circumlunar
vehicle
would
flights
or was
1962
and
sup-
manned
lunar orbit rendezvous expected to be capable of
placing 120 tons in low earth orbit or escaping tons to the vicinity of the moon. _ On
February
test
firing
Stages
6, was
of the
Huntsville
1962,
a 46-second
successfully Saturn
on
C-lbooster
conducted
SA-2
February
flight 16 for
at MSFC.
vehicle Cape
until
20,
LOX
1962.
depletion
seconds due to fire No damage resulted. On February the
on February was erected
launch pad of Launch Complex of the SA-T3 booster was
February
The
test,
cutoff,
Space
and'
(S&ID),
North
develop,
and
was
No.
was
awarded
Systems to
of the
C-5
MSFC signed a preliminary S-IC contract with Boeing Company 14.47
deon
On March
4 NASA selected
On March was were
Sverdrup
Parcell
Com-
criteria and initial planning at the Mississippi Test
19 thebooster
installed begun
stage
design,
vehicle. velopment February
pany to provide design for the test facilities Operations. _
S-II
6.
Division
Aviation, the
at 55
engine
contract
American
to last
terminated at
Information
fabricate
34. A static conducted on
scheduled
indication 4_
9 a preliminary
departed Canaveral.
The vehicle arrived at Cape Canaveral 27, 1962, and by March 1 the vehicle onthe firing
45
in the test for the first
for the
SA-3
flight
vehicle
tower, and preparations flight qualification test.
49
At Douglas Aircraft structural assembly of the first all-systems vehicle was completed in March 1962.
The all-systems
vehicle,
a heavily
mented configuration of the second (S-IV) would be used to check out all operating systems.
instrustage, S-IV
35
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 95
i
/
._.-
___2_I_NOUD r_
'_3
SLIO_'LL COtdPUTER FACILITY
OPEJ_AT,_S _
-,
95. Regional Mississippi 96.
On March site was stage
19, 1962, reconfirmed
major
ities. formed
the Seal as the
manufacturing
Beach, location
and
assembly
activ-
would Stage
be peraccept-
Testingof prototype stages at Santa Susana, California.
ance testing
wouldbe
conducted
Test Operations. Late contract was awarded for launch
area
Cape
at
the
at the
96
Mississippi
in March a construction construction of a second
Saturn
Canaveral.
California, of the S-II
Launch
Construction
Complex began
37,
early
in
April. OnApril
10,
1962,
the
performed its first static firing of 31
SA-3
was The
launch
vehicle
required large
late liquid
successfully
flight qualification seconds' duration.
same day representatives apreproposal conference Nova
booster
test in a 5° On the
of 13 companies attended at MSFC concerning the designs.
in the
Submittal
of bids
month.
hydrogen
engine,
J-2,
which
wouldpower the S-II and S-IVB stages for advanced Saturn vehicles, reached 90 percent sea-level thrust On the veloped successful 36
in its
initial
same day to power
on April
11.
the huge F-1 engine, being the S-IC stage, performed
hot
de-
150-second
firing
static
tests
firing.
51
a
S-IV
map Test
All-systems
showzng Facility vehicle
MARCH
- APRIL
1962
In mid-April Lock on the
reconstruction Tennessee
of the Wheeler Dam River was completed;
transportation made without
of Saturn land detour,
flight s2
NASA the
Headquarters
highest
stages
announced
on
priority
(DX)
national
could
April
be
18 that
had
been
97
97. Construction of Launch Complex37 98_ Launcho! SaturnSA-2 Flight Vehicle 98
approved for the Apollo, Saturn C-5. The priority included all facilities, and related construction test,
research,
launch,
NASA launched the SA-2, from with
the
and
SA-1,
the
vehicle
hold
This
had a secondary
water cloud
vehicle shutoff stages
during
was
the
sudden
the major when the
without
countdown•
mission.
in theupper atmosphere. produced rose to a height
water.
vehicle, 25. As
launched
10-hour
53
After
first
at 65 miles altitude the water-filled were exploded, dumping 95 tons
experiment, called formed to investigate of the
instrumentation.
the second Saturn flight Cape Canaveral on April
a technical stage upper
C-1, and Saturn stages, engines, for production,
This
The massive of 90 miles.
of ice The
Project High Water, was perthe effects on the ionosphere
release experiment
goal of the first-stage
of such did
a great not
volume
interfere
flight which was engines burned
of with
achieved out 116 37
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
seconds after was considered A 31-second
CHRONOLOGY
launch. Every successful. 54
duration
phase
eight-engine
of the flight
test
flight booster was conducted excellent overall performance.
of the
SA-3
on May 17 with 55 The final SA-3
booster acceptance firing test was performed May 24 for a duration of 119 seconds. _ On May 26, 1.962, Rocketdyne ducted the first full-thrust, engine cation
test. was
Onthe same day SA-4 completed. 57
In mid-May MSFC 260-inch-diameter
directed S-IVB
of
the
40 inches
permitted
successfully long-duration
over
development
Douglas stage.
initially
conF-1
booster
fabri-
to produce The increase
planned
of a more
on
a
diameter
optimum
sized 99
\
38
/iring
of F-I
MAY 100
stage.
Also
increase
S-II
during stage
and decrease to 138 feet. _d
•
May
length
the
S-IC
the
Center
from stage
- JULY 1962 decided
75 feet length
to 81.5 from
feet
141 feet
[i
On June 5 MSFC contracted to modify the C-1 booster static test stand at MSFC. stand, Jupiter •
to
,
/J
originally missiles
built to test the Redstone and and later modified for Saturn
testing, would provide first stages, s8
_
Saturn The
test
positions
for two
C-1
D
On June 9 Pratt & Whitney completed flight rating tests of the RL10-A-3 100.
C-1
101.
Saturn
first
stage C-IB
test stand vehicle
101
Saturn C-1 successfully booster on June
second met.
static 18 for
During June of a static C-5
feet
stage. All test objectives were At MSFC the first SA-4 test
firing was successfully a duration of 31 seconds.
bids test
booster.
would straint
preliminary engine for the
were stand
requested to captive
The stand,
conducted 59
for construction fire the Saturn
to be located
at MSFC,
provide handling equipment and thrust for boosters up to 178 feet in length, in
million
diameter, pounds.
and
with
Includinga
thrust crane
of up to 7.5 at the
top,
tower would stand 405 feet high, more than as tall as the present Saturn C-1 booster stand. NASA July
and 2 for
Rocketdyne further
re48 the
twice test
signed
letter
contracts
on
development
and
production
of
the F-1 through
and J-2 engines. The contracts, extending 1965, cover long lead-time items in F-1
engine
research
duction SA-5 A new
effort
and development on F-1
flight
booster
Saturn
vehicle
and
J-2
and
early
engines.
On July
7
assemblybeganatMSFC. was
needed.
6o NASA
nounced on July 11 that a new, two-stage class vehicle would be developed for earth-orbital spacecraft,
pro-
missions 61 The Saturn
with full-scale would be known
Saturn C-lB. Simultaneously, selection of lunar orbit rendezvous
an-
Saturnmanned Apollo as the
NASA announced as the method 39
SATURN for
ILLUSTRATED
performing
lunar
CHRONOLOGY
the manned
rendezvous
mode
lunar
would
landing.
require
only one Saturn C-5 vehicle to inject craft into an earth-lunar trajectory. Apollo spacecraft would not land on the its
separation
stage. excursion rejoin
from
the
rest
was manually
of the
ground
on The July
firing
July
17;
use
of
vehicle's
third a lunar and later
Apollo.
on Saturn static test
C-1 continued. of the SA-T4
after
instrumentation
12 seconds; wire
had
On stage a bro-
caused
an
drop indication. Pressure caused a premature cutoff of a test conducted on July 13. A
of 120 seconds overall
the
the spaceThe entire moon after
spacecraft, would land
orbiting
terminated
erroneous pressure measurementloss third SA-T4 static fourth
launch
Rather, oneunitofthe module, or "bug,"
Meanwhile, progress July 12 the second ken
the
This
duration
performance
stage was removed from the 20, and MSFC began uprating
188K thrust level. The uprated nated the SA-T4.5.62
stage
was
conducted
was
excellent.
test stand the engines was
on to
redesig-
I02
4O
102.
Launch
Complex39
JULY 1962 I03
103,
Saturn C-5 launch pad On
July
21
struction launch
plans and
48-story a 2500-ton
announced
Complex
The 350-foot-high checked
assembly crawler
to its
Headquarters
for Launch
facilities.
be erected
C-5
NASA
launch
39, Saturn vehicle
out vertically
conC-5 would
in a special
building. Following checkout vehicle would move the Saturn pad. 6s
In July wouldbe
NASA announced that established at Slidell,
ice
the
Michoud
one
of the
Operations.
nation's
largest,
neering calculations ment, building, and C-] and C-5 boosters.
a computer Louisiana, The
would
center to serv-
Center, perform
to be engi-
necessary in the developstatic testing of the Saturn
To assure C-5 strength, MSFC awarded a design contract in July for a 360-foot-high dynamics test tower. The Saturn C-5 launch vehicle would be suspended in the tower and electrical means. flight natural
conditions bending
and
vibrated by mechanical This simulation of free-
would determine modes. 64
the
vehicle's
41
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
OnAugust tion
6,
signed
boosters,
1962,
CHRONOLOGY
NASA and
a contract to be
for
delivered
Chrysler
Corpora-
production between
of 21 late
C-1
1964
and
early 1966. The stages would be produced by Chrysler at the Michoud Plant near New Orleans. 65 On the same date NASA announced that the Boeing Company had received from MSFC for work ment,
fabrication,
A C-5
second
ment,
fabrication,
a supplementary leading to design,
and
stage
test
contract
of the for
and testing
contract develop-
C-5
booster.
design,
of the
develop-
S-IVB
stages
was awarded Douglas on August 8. The contract called for 11 of the stages: five for ground tests 104
104. NASA Computer Center, Slidell, Louisiana 105. C-5 Dynamic Test Tower 105 (two
of which
would
stages)
and
Next,
provision
control. instrument measure
six for
powered
was
vehicle mounted
as inert
flight. for
flight
66
C-5
guidance
guidance and control on panels fastened
On August
15 NASA
a two-year
contract
42
made
later
and
On August 13 MSFC selected the C-5 unit design. The cylindrical unit would 260 inches in diameter and stand 36 inches
high. All would be structure.
search
be used
and
awarded to
development.
equipment within this
Rocketdyne
continue These
H-1
Division engine
first
re-
Saturn
AUGUST-
SEPTEMBER
1962
106
106.
S-IV
battleship
107,
S-IC
static
static test
tiring stand
107
booster boosters.
engines
C-1
second
gust
17 Douglas
would
stage
cessful October 11 tests ber 8.
be used
progress
all,test
the
first
IB
On AuS-IV
battle-
Sacramento Test Facility developed approximately for a planned 10 seconds
objectives
full 420-second 4. In the final were conducted,
in Saturn
continued.
performed
ship static firing at the in California. The stage 90,000 pounds of thrust duration;
also
were
firing phase the
met.
A suc-
was performed on of testing a total of last one on Novem-
MSFC on August 31 awarded a contract for construction in Huntsville of the S-IC static test stand superstructure. 67 DuringAugust Phase I construction
of the
was
completed
received
Launch
the Douglas
ing modification C-1B vehicle.
Complex
at AMR.
Also
preliminary
of the
S-IVB
34 umbilical
tower
in August,
MSFC
proposal stage
for
coveruse
in the
The SA-3 flight booster was shipped to Cape Canaveral on September 9, arrived on September 39. andwas erected on the launch pad on September 21.68 By September 24 the inert upper stages and payload had been erected on the booster. 43
SATURN
Early were
ILLUSTRATED
in September held at Seal
sembly stage
and
test
CHRONOLOGY
ground breaking Beach, California, facilities
of Saturn
C-5
for
would
the
be.
ceremonies where assecond
The
wouldbe constructed by the Navy and North American Aviation's S&ID. On
September
President officials, of four
11
U.
S. space
On September
15
42-footboringmill, C-5 production. provided
President
Douglas
investigate C-5 second
S-II
facility
operated
Kennedy
Johnson, with other visited MSFC as part
(S-II)
and
by
Vice
key Government of a two-day tour
centers. Michoud
technicians
the largest known, 69 Also in mid-September, 90-day
program
minimum changes stages to C-lB.
authori necessary Douglas
study attachment of the S-IVB booster, as well as separation
installed for
a
use in MSFC
zation
to
to adapt would also
stages to the C-1 during flight. 108
109
108. S-II stage assembly and test facility 109. President Kennedy visits
44
MSFC
SEPTEMBER 110. 111.
Installation
of 42-[oot boring mill Mississippi Test Facility
- OCTOBER
1962
110
tll
On September 25 assemblybegan of the SA-6 booster. Meanwhile, preliminary plans completed Operations. gram static
for development First phase
flight were
of the Mississippi of the three-phase
Test pro-
included building two test stands each for firing the S-IC and S-II stages and about 20
service and approximately struction
support buildings. 15 miles of river
of a canal
within
the
Improvement channel and test
facility
of conwould
permit transportation of stages from Michoud Mississippi Test Operations test stands. All
objectives
booster ber 26. inboard
flight
were
met
qualification
A record burning engines operated
the outboard SA-4 booster
during
the
static
firing
second
to
SA--4
on Septeln-
time was set when for 12]. 5 seconds
engines for 127.43 was removed from
seconds. the static
tower on October 1; post-static checkout On the same day MSFC let a contract for
the and The test
began. construc-
70
45
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
tion of the at Michoud.
vertical 71
CHRONOLOGY assembly
building
During September MSFC directed a plan for C-5 dual plane separation. separation,
S-IC
separation
of the
separation S-II
it was
the
scheduled
S&ID to develop In dual plane
would
by
firstof
was started began fabri-
21 Saturn
113
C-lboosters
to produce.
fully performed firingon October
tests, were
of 50 and success-
prior to a long-duration static 4. The long-duration engine test
conducted by Rocketd3x_e was out the scheduled 250 seconds on
be followed
booster Chrysler
Two J-2 engine full-thrust firing 94 seconds duration respectively,
long-duration conducted
112
interstage.
The first industry-produced October 4 at Michoud when cationofS-I-8,
foundation
satisfactory operation.72A
testof 220 seconds October 6 at the
was Santa
throughsecond
successfully Susana Test
Facility. During October MSFC began rated test stage SA-T4.5. the
integrity
of the 188K
of the engines
tests Tests
propulsion on the
system
flame
concluded in checking
MSFC awardeda
C-5
Saturn
and
effect
deflector.
tests were successfully to Michoud for use
114
on the C-1 upwere to check After
the stage went out facilities.
contract
on October
L
5
for construction in Huntsville of a combined S-IC stage vertical assembly building and hydrostatic test tower]3NASA Headquarters approved on Ottober
12 the
Saturn
term research S&ID. 74 On October Saturn C-5
stage
46
at MSFC, changes.
second
stage
includes assembly and
!S-II)
long-
contract
with
approved schedule,
the Plan
development
15 NASA Headquarters vehicle development
V.75 The plan adjustments, ule
C-5 and
launch
funding and test program of the first S-IC flight and
ground
test
sched-
112 113. 114.
Dual plane separation J-2 test facihty S-IC St_lge facility
OCTOBER In October NASA arranged channel to the Saturn C-5
115. 116.
SA-5 configuration Unloading S-IV stage at MSFC 115
- NOVEMBER
1962
to dredge an access Complex 39 Vertical
Assembly Building and Launch Pad area at Merritt Island, Florida. On October 2 MSFC contracted for construction of a flame deflector for the MSFC Saturn
S-IC
test
stand.
7G
During October MSFC decided payload with the fifth Saturn second
stage
progress
to fly a Jupiter-type flight. 77Saturn C-1
included
completion
of the
S-IV Hydrostatic/Dynamics Stage at Santa Monica. It began its trip to MSFC via the Victory Ship Smith Builder on October 26, was transferred to the barge to MSFC
Promise at New Orleans, on November 16 for six
prehensive
dynamic
testing.
The Launch in October
Operations to modify
and delivered months of com-
78
Center awarded a contract the Complex 34 fuel, LOX,
and liquid nitrogen servicing systems in preparation for Saturn C-1 Block II vehicle launches. SA-5 flight booster ass embly ber 6 and the booster checkout. 79 Assembly
was completed on Novemtransferred for pre-static of the SA-D5 booster for
dynamics
completed
testing
This stage test tower booster C-]
was
was installed on November
simulated
boosters
manned
on
29.
in the MSFC dynamics 13, 1962. The SA-D5
configuration
which
October
were
of the
expected
final
Saturn
to be used
for
flights.
During November Douglas awarded subcontracts for development of the S-IVB's 1750-pound thrust 116
ullage motors motors. On
November
RL10-A-1 tests
and 150-pound
8 the
last
engineswas
totaling
1137.6
thrust
S-IV
attitude
battleship
completed seconds
Cost
the
next
negotiations
phase
of battleshiphot
between
MSFC
test
with
at SACTO;
were
installaengines
firing and
11
accomplished.
The A-1 engines were then removed and tion began of RL19-A-3 operational-type for
control
Boeing
tests.
8o
began 47
SATURN on
ILLUSTRATED
November
15
development The third
and
for
the
flew
from
planned
16. Cape
load
Itrosetoaheightofaboutl04 was 131 statute miles. as
miles. Inboard after
December
]3
construction and Vel, tical Chrysler
In December
and,
was
began
research 82
design
Test Tower contract for tank;
a contract
Corporation
range cutoff
of flight;
seconds later. as a secondary
awarded
for
the
Hydrostatic Test Also at Michoud, fabrication
of the
and development
of Marshall's
Canaveral,
was
pounds.
Flight engine
C-5
was completed; Douglas fabrication of the S-IVB
at Cape
I17
Canaveral,
141 seconds
of the Michoud S-IC Assembly Building.
tenth and final booster, S-I-10.
SA-3
of 750,000
outboard engine cutoff came eight Project HighWater was performed mission on SA-3 as on SA-2.81 On
stage
contract.
full propellant
occurred
S-IC
on November
launched
carryinga
long-term
production
Saturn
successfully
CHRONOLOGY
the
Corps
Saturn
Dynamic
awarded battleship
a
of Engi118 -4
/2 48
II7_ Launch Vehicle
o[
SA-3
118.
Vertical
Building
at Michoud
Flight
Assembly
NOVEMBER neers
awarded
Complex
1962
a contract
39
Vertical
for
- FEBRUARY
design
Assembly
of the
1963
Launch
Building.
119
119. Vertical
Launch Complex 39 Assembly Building 120_ SA-D5 booster 120
Initial
checkout
began
of
at Santa
began
fabrication
S-IV
flight
1962. gan
S-IV
in late
all-systems
vehicle
December.
of S-IV-111,
the
8_ Douglas
first
production
stage.
Rocketd_-ne bustion
the
Monica
studied causes
of the F-1
engine
instability first encountered Testing
with modified
engine
during
June
hardware
be-
in the latter part of 1962 and was
to continue During the
during
early
1963 construction
Beach
Aircraft
scheduled
1963.84
January
Huntington
Douglas
com-
Assembly
Company
began
Facility
at
where
will assemble
S-IVB
stages. In January MSFC began dynamics tests of the SA-D5 vehicle configuration. 85 The Center finished expansion Block
of its static test tower
Douglas
completed
facilities
vehicle
January,
sent
use
in checkout
MSFC from
for Saturn
C-1
II first stages.
shipped Huntsville
vehicle February
was
checkout
of the
at
Monica
this
Santa
vehicle
of Launch bybarge
the
to Cape erected
to
Cape
Complex complete
Canaveral. on
Launch
S-IV
dynamic/
and,
during
Canaveral 3"B
for
facilities. SA-4 The
Complex
8G
vehicle complete 34
by
5.87 49
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 121
On the
duration
was
468 seconds.
8_ On February
1
Douglas shipped the S-IV all-systems vehicle from Santa Monica to SACTO for testing. 89 At Launch
Complex
37B the
launch
control
automatic ground control station, tower were completed on January During
the
quarters
first
week
announced
of
and 30.
February
a change
center, umbilical
NASA
in Saturn
Headvehicle
nomenclature. Saturn C-1 became Saturn I, Saturn C-IB became Saturn I_B, and Saturn C-5 became Saturn v.g° Saturn V hardware In early February gore-forming On
development Boeing began
operations
February
4 MSFC
at decided
was under way. S-IC bulkhead
Wichita, to modify
side of the MSFC static test tower for testing. The modification would allow engine tests scheduled. for
S-I
static
awarded a F-1 engine 5O
to begin several The stand would testing.
On
Kansas. the
91
west
F-1 engine single F- 1
months earlier than later be reconverted February
contract for construction test stand superstructure
8
MSFC
of a single at MSFC.
S-IV
stage 122. plex
at Cape SA-4 on 34
122
January 26 at SACTO, Douglas static fired RL10-A-3-powered S-IV battleship vehicle.
Test
121.
D)'namJc,"FacJhtles Canaveral Launch Com-
JANUARY
- FEBUARY
1963
123
i23. 124
S_Jrurn
Vehicles
S-IC
bulkhead
gore [orming test stand
125
F-I
125
124
Early
in
February
s&ID
Seal Beach assembly Saturn V second stages
began
occupancy
of the
and test facility where would be assembled and
tested. Also in February S&ID successfully pleted S-IC/S-II stage dual plane separation pingement tests. 92 The
first
powered The
S-IV
live
Saturn
by liquid battleship
I
hydrogen, stage
second still
stage
would
not flight
permitted
comim-
tests
be
proven. of this 51
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 126
126. S-II Seal Beach facility 127 Crawler-transt_orter new technology. battleship turbine due
to inadequate
February plished. firing after fire
On February 18 and 19 S-IV spinup tests were unsuccessful purge
procedures;
23 a successful Two
days
spinup later
testing RL10-A-3 6.5 seconds when at engine
On February for design,
No.
4.
the
however, test
was
second
battleship
engines was terminated a hydrogen leak caused No
damage
20 NASA began contract fabrication, erection,
on
accom-
resulted,
a '_3
negotiations and testing of 127
\
52
FEBRUARY the crawler-transporter Saturn V vehicle to the plex 39. 1963.
The
contract
NASA Headquarters plan for modification tract.
The
plan
was
signed
the Com-
on March
on February 20 approved of the basic Chrysler
provides
for
redesign
29,
the con-
of the
S-I
94
stages. For
which would transport launch pad of Launch
1963
Saturn
approved
the
Boeing S-IC definitive contract on February Boeingwilldesign, develop, and manufacture
21. one
ground Michoud
the 27
Headquarters
of Engineers
the
Test
NASA
test stage and nine flight stages at Plant in New Orleans.gS On February
the Corps for
V,
Saturn
awarded
V test
facilities
a design at the
contract
Mississippi
Operations.
MSFC awarded a contract in February for constructionof three micrometeoroid satellites, two for flight and one for backup. 9_ The satellites, 128
128
Micrometeoroid
satellite
secondary and SA-9, and
payloads for Saturn would be used to obtain
penetration
I vehicles SA-8 data on frequency
of micrometeoroids
in low earth
orbits and to relay the information back to earth. On February 27 the first S-I-5 flight qualification statictest MSFC
(SA-11) for
a
was
planned
successfully duration
conducted of
32
at
seconds. 53
SATURN On
ILLUSTRATED
February
19
CHRONOLOGY
at
the
Michoud
Plant,
Boeing
completed the first Y-ring for the S-IC test tank; on March 4 the Y-ring was delivered MSFC where the fuel tank wouldbe assembled.
fuel to 97
Also
was
at
Michoud
awarded gineering
for design building.
During at
during
February,
SACTO
pneumatic out.
and
February
a contract
construction
construction
was
completed
systems
of Test and
were
of the
the
installed
129
en-
Stand
2B
propellant and
checked
130
129,
Static
130 .gichoud
Completed
131.
On March 1 Rocketdyne successfully F-1 engine during a hot firing test
gimballed in California.
Onthe same day qualification of explosive dies for S-II gore segments began American's S&ID
E1 Toro
awarded
design
Computer
mockup at 1; the mockup
On March to industry Facility
Dynamic testing pleted on March qualification 54
contract
of various
the
S-II
8 MS FC awarded a one-year for operation of the Slidell at Slidell,
Louisiana.
of the SA-D5 7.99 On March
static
for
Downey, Caliwill be used for
and engineeringverification
systems. contract
forming at North
Facility.
a construction
electro-mechanical fornia, on March
an 98
firing
vehicle was 13 a second
of S-I-5
was
comflight
conducted
131
Explosive
firing
of Y-ring
forming
S-I-5 at dies
FEBRUARY 132 • _
-.,
. ,
_ ---i_
|,
for a planned analysis
_T!'
period
of 143 seconds.
revealed
propulsion
onds,
concluded
S-I-5
NASA Headquarters plan for four additional On the 132.
SA-5 Instrument unit 133. SA-4 launch 133
same
instrument
day, unit
Saturn SA-4, powered-stage,
flight
system
the
testing.
100
MSFC procurement stages on March 22.101
at MSFC, was
irregulariconducted on This test, of 144 sec-
qualification
approved S-IVB
1963
Subsequent
ties, and a third static firing was March 27 to confirm corrections. successfully conducted for a duration
>
- APRIL
checkout
of the
SA-5
begun.
fourth and last Block I vehicles,
of the singlewas success-
fully launched on March 28 from Launch Complex 34. The vehicle, carrying several Block II components for test, reached an altitude of 80 statute miles.
Range
velocity mission 100
was
218
statute
and peak
3660 miles per hour. As a secondary the No. 5 inboard engine was cut off at
seconds
to test
bility. Overall very satisfactory. As the Saturn on the larger Douglas,
the
I project Saturns
S-IVB
vehicle
performance 102
stage
cylindrical at Wichita
early
of the
contractor, for the awarded
Also in March S&ID placed battleship tank structure; began
engine-out
capa-
flight
was
entered its final phase, work proceeded. On March 12
a construction contract SAC TO; the contract was
ponents
miles
a contract fabrication
in April.
skin segment during April.
invited
was
bids
for
Beta Complex in late March.
The completed
at 109
for the S-II of comfirst
S-IC
by Boeing
The S-I-D5 stage was removed from the Dynamics Test Tower at MSFC on March 18. Thebooster was
shipped
to Cape
Canaveral
on April
5 for
use
in facilities checkout of Launch Complex 37B. The stage arrived at the Cape on April 15 and was erected three days Dynamics/Facilities bration week tests
and
later. vehicle
mechanical
of April 24, early in May.
On April 19 the S-IV was erected. Cali-
checks
followed
were
by propellant
begun
the
loading
55
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 134
135
°
136
134, Launch 135,
136, battleship
During
early
April
Douglas
S-IV-5 arrived
at Santa Monica. at SACTO and was
finished
checkout
of
On April 19 the stage installed on Test Stand
2B on May 22. Static testing tions and engineering changes,
followed t04
modifica-
OnApril22 MSFC installed S-I-6 tower. The first short-duration
in its static
static firing
successfully
15 for
a duration
56
conducted
on
May
test was
Facility
checkout
Complex Checkout
Completion test
o[
37B o[ S-IV-5
program
o[ S-IV
APRIL of
33.75
seconds.
Douglas
tests
and repair
of
all-systems
at SACTO
on
the
tank.
and
On
a
Test
May
18.
At
SACTO
14
was
vehicle
for
bending for
another
leak
The 2B
Tank
testing
field
test
was
detected was
inspection
in
removed repair
on
sos
Douglas
test
program
444
seconds
4302.5
1.
May
hydrogen
Stand
propellant
halted
commonbulkhead.
from
April
cracking
performed the
S-IV
insulation
1963
105
initiated
loading
- MAY
completed
with on
a final
May
seconds
RL10-A-3
the LOX
4.
were
S-IV
depletion
Sixteen
The
firing
tests
accomplished
engines.
battleship of
totaling using
complete
the
battleship
test
137
Douglas Huntington Beach Facility S-IVB for_'_rd f_ockup 138
program
(includingbothA-1
atotalfiringtime
of
a one-engine
gimbal
and
5440.1 test
21 the battleship
tank
was
MSFC.
used
by
It was
drogen
slosh
shipped
to
for
gimballing
test.
MSFC
and tests.
A-3
engines)
seconds.
was
shipped the
On
conducted.
Five
of the
used
on
the
for six
May On
from
Center
had
SACTO liquid
engines
dynamic
13 May to hy-
were vehicle
_07
57
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY
During May the S-IVB Huntington tion and assembly building was construction
of the
assembly
during
MSFC
received
May
Beach fabricacompleted and
tower the
begun.
Also
S-IVB
forward
area mockup from Douglas to be used to determine interface requirements between the S-IVB and instrument unit. On May 18 at Michoud Chrysler finished clustering of propellant containers lotS-I-8, the firstbooster fabricated by industry sonnel at MSFC. 108 During
early
rather
May the
than
J-2
by federal
engine,
used
per-
on S-IVB
and S-II stages, was successfully fired for the first time at a simulated space altitude in excess of 60,000 feet. The engine developed pounds thrust; after 20 seconds the test minated as programmed. 109
200,000 was ter-
On May 13 NASA negotiated a firm cost proposal for incorporation of dual plane separation for S-IC/S-II stages with S&ID. 11° During mid-May land clearing at Mississippi Test Operations began in preparation for the dredging of a barge harbor and access channel; a 10.5-mile track of railroad was
completed
Dynamic
into
testing
the test
of the
site.
S-IV
stage,
instrument
unit, and Jupiter-type payload was completed at MSFC during mid-May. On May 23 the Apollo boilerplate and associated units were installed and
testing
resumed;
completed
on
engineers
completed
June
this 16.
phase Also
the
of testing
during
design
of the
was
May MSFC S-IC
stage
transporter. On May
28 MSFC
Aviation modified
Agency B-377
used
(FAA) aircraft.
for transportation
cargoes. on July
Formal 10.111
During
the
occupancy 58
awarded
first
a contract
for
Federal
certification flights of a The aircraft would be of the
S-IV
stage
and other
FAA certificationwas
of June
of the new Central
MSFC
received
personnel
Laboratory
began
and Office
139. Fabrication and assembly of S-1-8 at Michoud: a. barrel assembly, b. lower thrust ring, c. tail unit_ d. thrust structure, e, spider beam, f. LOX and fuel tanks ready for clustering, g, installation of center LOX tank_ h clustering 70-inch LOX tanks, i_ clustering 70-inch fuel tanks, j; final assembly 140 Pregnant Guppy aircraft
MAY 139 a.
e_
- JUNE
1963
h_
• '/_
=-:" ....
bo
f
--h_
jo g.
C,
b -
140
i
d.
Building.
Also
V Dynamic June.
constructionoftheSaturn
Tower
foundation
A full-duration,
static
test
for
142.37
cut
off
and
the
June
at MSFC
Test
On June
S-I-6
successfully
seconds.
by
LOX
low-level
stage
engines was
checkout,
5 limited
flight
inboard sensors six
removed
on
June
engines at
136
seconds from
in early
qualification
conducted
The
outboard
17the
post-static
was
began
seconds
later. the
6
were On
stand
for
ls2
beneficial
occupancy
was
granted 59
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
on the S-IC stage static Test Facility for S-I-9, at
CHRONOLOGY
Vertical Assembly and Hydroat MSFC. t13 Clustering of tanks
the last Saturn
MSFC,
began
Ibooster
on June
to be fabricated
4 and was
June 19; inboard on July 17. 114
engine
installation
On
Corps
of Engineers
June
17 the
tracts for emergency Pearl
River
excavation service and
for lock building, clearing
I41
completed was
awarded
and bascule dredging
of Saturn
on
completed
con-
bridge, of East
V complex
at
142
143
144
6O
141. 142. 143. 144_ Test
Saturn V Dynamic tower S-IC [acility Assembly o[ S-1-9 stage Dredging at Mis,_issippi Facility
JUNE
the
Mississippi
gimballing were
Test
June
28.
S-IV
stage
escape
Operations.
tests on engine
completed
in
Three
system
Pre-static
No.
pitch
days
with
tests of the and
launch
of the S-IV-5
stage at SACTO
late June
commonbulkheadwas
repair
of the
completed.
On
installed on Test
Stand 1 at
Monica,
completed
the
to Yrzng
on
SACTO.
At
During
bulkhead
stage
directions
July 6 the vehicle was
checkout
M,_tmg
yaw
boilerplate
began on June 18. 115During
]4,-).
MSFC
1 of the S-IV
and
1963
completed.
checkout
all-systems
At
later dynamic
Apollo
were
- JULY
Santa
of the S-IV-6
June
S-IC
test
MSFC fuel
stage on July 19. I16
welded tank
Douglas
the
to the
upper
Y-ring.
bulkhead Also
for during
145
June B
facility checkout
was
completed
Dynamics/Facilities
of Launch
at Cape
for flight performance
Guppy
aircraft.
1 aboard
stage departed the barge
37 Pad The
S-IV
vehicle was flown to the West
Coast
The S-I-D5
Complex
Canaveral.
Cape
Palaemon,
test of the Pregnant
Canaveral arriving
on July at MSFC 61
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY
on July 14;the stage was used for additional dynamic testing. On July 9 MSFC directed Chrysler to proceed with fin redesign as part of the S-IB stage redesign effort.I17 On July 25 the Corps tract for construction stand
foundations
At MSFC the S-IC
of Engineers awarded a conof S-IC and S-II stage test
at Mississippi
during Static
steel erection begun. welded the S-IC upper the
Operations. for and
The Center successfully cylindrical skin section
to
Y-ring.
During pleted plex. static tank
Test
late July the concrete towers Test Stand were completed
July
construction
of foundations
was
com-
for Test Stand 1 and 3 at SACTO Beta ComAlso at SACTO, Douglas initiated hydrotest and calibration of the S-IVB battleship on August
2.
On August 5 NASA completed S-IB tiations with Chrysler Corporation
contract negoatMichoud. 118 146
62
146 147. 147
S-IB stage S-IC static
te._t to_'er
JULY The following tiations
day
were
Corporation
S-IVB/Saturn
completed at Santa
- AUGUST
IB contract
with
1963 nego-
Douglas
Aircraft
Monica.
On August construction
6 the Corps of Engineers awarded a contract for the Mississippi Test
Operations
Laboratory
During
August
tions
were
building contract
and
hydraulic
completed
Engineering
dredging for
the
Building.
and fill vertical
opera-
assembly
at Cape Canaveral. MSFC awarded a on August 6 for assembly of two S-IC
transporters;
assembly
began
two
days
later.
148
149
I48. 14.9.
Construction
at Launch Cor;_plex 39 S-IC stage a[t area n_ockup
On August 11 MSFC started the Payload toward Cape Canaveral.
S-I-5, S-IU-5, and 119MSFC installed
on the barge Promise a complete vehicle of the SA-6 configuration test tower. _2o Also
at
MSFC
during
early
dynamics test in the dynamic
August two
S-IC
F-1
aft
completed, 121
On August the S-IV-5
first attempt to acceptance fire at SACTO was aborted at 63.6
5 the stage
with
the
area mockup was mockups attached.
engine
seconds due to an indication of fire in the engine area; however, inspection revealed an instrumentation
malfunction
OnAugust
in ground
12 a successful
support
equipment.
477-second,
tion S-IV-5 flight qualification ducted. 122DuringAugust the S-I-5
firing stage,
full-durawas conbooster 63
SATURN for
ILLUSTRATED
the
Cape On
fifth
Saturn
CHRONOLOGY flight
vehicle,
was
erected
at
Canaveral. September
1 Dr.
Wern_her
Director,
announced
a major
Center.
Progress
in the
yon
Braun,
MSFC
reorganization Saturn
150
of the
program,
and
a
rise in industrial participation to approximately 90 percent ofthebudget, necessitated the changes. The Center created two Research and Development trial
Operations.
major subdivisions -Operations and Indus-
Research
and
Development
Operations, composed of the nine technical divisions redesignated laboratories, was strengthened for its cialized tions ter's
Huntsville-based operations and contractor assistance. Industrial
was created to direct the portion work performed by prime
mainly
the
development
the Saturn I, Saturn rockets. _23
of stages IB,
and
of the Cencontractors,
and
Saturn
for speOpera-
engines
for
V multi-stage
151
150
S-IV-5
acceptance
[iring 15I.
GEORGE C. MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER I
DIRECTOR
I
EXECUTIVE
l
STA_
! RE3EARCH
64
l
I
_ DEVELORdENT
OPERATIONS
_;;_I
I
I.C_;_:,_, I
INOUSTRIAL OPERATI(JIIS
MSFC
reorganization
SEPTEMBER In mid-September
Douglas
SACTO to the craft. 124Other
Cape Saturn
flew
The
Saturn
_
of the S-I-9 and checkout of the
stage
contract
by Douglas 10. In the
and same
submitted to NASA on month a joint MSFC/
Spacecraft Saturn
a "Preliminary specification•
Center IB
modification
Ad Hoc
crew
safety
safety
Emergency Douglas began
on the S-IVB battleship for ground tests of the .r
airin-
IB second
considered 152
from
stage.
was signed September Manned
S-IV-5
via the Pregnant Guppy I progress in September
cluded MSFC's final assembly Douglas' beginning of pre-static S-IV-6
the
1963
meeting
and developed
Detection installing
System" insulation
stage, a heavier S-IVB flight stage.
version 125
,
During
September
S-IC forward S-IC-T (all
area systems)
merous
research
MSFC's
Test
completed
Saturn
V's
mockup and completed the intertankassembl_. 126Nuactivities
Laboratory
sion problems, Jet and Lewis Research 152. LoaditTl_ o[ S-IV ,stage 153, h_tertar_k [or S-IC-T
MSFC
were studied
under sound
way:
suppres-
Propulsion Laboratory Center began S-IC base
(JPL) heat-
I53
65
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 154
154.
ExperJ[:;ental
[lrzng
sound supl)res_,or _]ien _ proh, raln 155. S-II .,_tage a, S-II aft interstage b S-II [ort_,ard mock'up,
c:
_n
dev,_h_p. actlvit_es, _n_>ckup, interstale
S-ll
b_Hkhoad
{abricution huH(ling ill Seal Beach, d. $-I1 structural test tower at Seal Beach, e. hulkhead
fabrication
area
at Seal
Beach, [ gore [ormin/g [acAilit)' at E1 Toro. g. S-II skate bulkhead welders at Sea/ Beach, die at
b. Exploszve E1 Toro
155a.
b.
ingtests. The contractor for the Saturn V second stage, S&ID of North American Aviation, began PERT reporting at Seal Beach on the S-II program with eleven ties. and
networks
reflecting
On September forward interface
mating
tests
of the
In October
about
8500
activi-
providing tasks.
S-IC
technicians
Progress
the
SA-5 for
during October. the S-I-8 stage covered 66
and
flight
nine-hour
on the
other
forward at
Launch
skirt.
127
Complex
37B
operational completion
Saturn
sequence
plan,
of launch
I vehicles
day
continued
Chrysler completed assembly of at Michoud._29MSFC personnel discorrected
.
23 S&ID sent MSFC the S-II mating mockups for use in
joined the S-IV-5 stage, payload, and instrument unit to the S-I stage. Pre-launch checkout of the SA-5 vehicle continued. 12_In Huntsville MSFC completed
C°
minor
problems
in the
in-
d°
°..
fort:ling
SEPTEMBER e.
strument
unit
Centerts booster
network
of the SA-6
Test Laboratory for the first time,
formed the second S-I-7 for a duration
- OCTOBER vehicle.
static tested and on October
1963
13° The the SA-7 22 per-
and final acceptance test on of 138.93 seconds. 131The Doug-
las second stage work at SACTO included initiation of pre-static checkout of the S-IV-6 and start of assembly
of the
S-IV-10.
NASA approved a Chrysler in October that provided for in
lieu
of
Michoud, components ._.'_.-_72:,._'.", .:
operational Chrysler for these
ed the design release completed the 50 gaseous
oxygen
tinued
work
ment
for
Saturn
Saturn
Douglas began gen test tank tests.
I boosters.
At
for the S-IB spider beam and percent design review of the
line
its
modification IB boosters
continued design studies on S-IB stages. MSFC approv-
and
diffuser.
on hydrostatic
assemblyof
contract 12 Saturn
IB's S-IVB
Douglas
and dynamic second
stage
battleship
fabricating in Huntsville
stage
an S-IVB for use
con-
test
equip-
and
began
at SACTO.
liquid in J-2
hydroengine
the
Saturn
ho
Bocingpersonnel j
r
_' m_,,,aL.--,..&..ilmmmm_,_ •v
s
._,
,(
_.
..,_ ,_
V booster MSFC
j_,,, _
atMichoud
lower
thrust
personnel
completed
ring
continued
assembly
in October.
fabrication
of the
132 fuel
tank and other major components for the S-IC test stage. S&IDcontinued fabrication and assembly of ground test S-II stages and construction of test stands. On October 3] MSFC received from Rocketdyne the first NASA Saturn missions thereby minate vehicle approved more Project
Division
production
of North model
announced on October manned flight missions. were deleted.
American
Aviation
of the huge F-1
engine.
30 a rephasing of Saturn I manned
dropped and six Saturn The Saturn I program
I vehicles will ter-
with completion of the ten unmanned research and development program. speed-upof powerful
Saturn
Apollo
Saturn manned
Saturn V_s manned ing will be utilized
IB development.
IB vehicle flights
_33
will
launch
in preparation
moon mission. in future Saturn
"All-up" flights.
flight NASA The the for testThat 67
SATURN
is,
ILLUSTRATED
there
stages; cles In
will
flights
flights
NASA
because
vehicle.135
further
will
configuration.
November
cle's
no
development in final
flight
22
be
CHRONOLOGY
second
postponed
Douglas
the
Saturn
fifth
problems
SAC TO Douglas stage
156a.
dummy vehi-
134
of technical At
test
with
conducted
a
with
placed
in a test
Saturn
stand.
I
the
SA-5
the
SA-6
vehi-
On
November
successful
460-second b,
acceptance
firing
November Saturn
Douglas I
second
of
this
S-IV-6
finished stage,
Chrysler-builtbooster,
stage.
assembly the
S-I-8,
S-IV-7. was
136 During of another The
in final
first cheek-
out.
MSFC use
and
Chrysler
of uprated
H-1
completed engines
their
in Saturn
study IBTs
of the booster
157
c
158
156. Erection of SA-5 at Cape Canaveral, a. instrument un it, h. S-IV-5 stage, co hoisting instrument unit, do payload adapter, e. hoisting payload, [ payload, g. SA-5 at Launch Complex 37B 157_ S-IVB liquid hydrogen test tank, .gISFC 68
NOVEMBER
1963
d
159_
b_
[7
C_
158. Jng
Michoud
mechanic
drHl.
in the first S-IC lower thrust ring 159 S-II test stand construction at Santa Susana; a. flame deflector in battleship lef_s
holes
test test
stand, stnnd, ship
b. all-sysc. b_tttletest
stand
69
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
stage.
On November
engine
load
MSFC
directed
powerful
criteria
and
Systems i.
Systems
and At
completed
NASA
contracted pad pad
tinued
will
components stage Assembly booster
at
$19
tank
Building. contract and
raised
contracted
Mississippi
spider
beam
and
test
Center
constage
began new
V
39.139
MSFC
in its
S-IC
Vertical
Additions to the Saturn increased Boeing support the
than
total
$447 for
Test
value
million.
a $13.4 Operations
of the On
million for
I61
138
a Saturn
Complex
V booster The
Beach
adapter.
12 for
assembly
will
Chrysler
million.
of Saturn
fuel
to more
MSFC
over
in November.
test
tract
cost
on Novem(S-IVB)
month
Center,
/
Labora-
stage
November
more Engi-
Huntington
S-IB
Space
manufacture
IB
the
second on
joint
facility
in this
of the
at Kennedy
the
its
Saturn
during
a mockup manufacturingthe
develop
Area
tested
impact,
Integration
for
Michoud
began
launch
IB schedule to
160
determined
occupied
stages
assembled
MSFC
Saturn
Integrations
Second
facility.
The
Chrysler
Rocketdyne
Development
tory/ ber
8, after
engine.t37Douglas
neering
be
CHRONOLOGY
S-IC
V to con-
November test
complex
the
Saturn
8
V
b_
160. Second stage for SA-6 flight being placed in SACTO stand for acceptance testing 161. Spider beam mockup for Saturn IB'S first, S-IBo Stage
162a
162 Saturn V booster test stage components: a. assembly o[ $-IC test fuel tank, b. welding S-IC bulkhead
70
NOVEMBER 163
second tinued static An
- DECEMBER
stage (S-II). At Seal Beach, assembly of the S-II battleship tests.
important
engine
1963
S&ID constage for
development
milestone
occurred on.November 27 with Rocketdyne's extended-duration firing test of the J-2 This successful test of the 200,000-pound
first engine. thrust,
liquid hydrogen-fueled engine lasted for more than 8 minutes. The J-2 will power upper stages of both the Saturn IB and the SaturnV vehicles, l_ 164
On November Cape
Kennedy
onthe critical
stages.
On
Chrysler I booster
facility
at
officially
NASA
to John
F.
the
flight
(KSC).
postponed
1964 after
fittings place
of the
changed
Center
in December
January
name
was
Space
MSFC
discovering
SA-5
cracks
until
in fuel
line
S-I-5 stage. tubing on
MSFC decided to reit and all remaining S-!
December
13 MSFC
at Michoud {S-I-8).
the first
accepted
industry-built
from Saturn
163. A,ssembly 164
of S-ll battleship First J-2 extendedduration firing test
28 the
Canaveral
By the end of December Chrysler had completed and MSFC had approved most of the structural redesign of Saturn IB's first stage. 141During the month NASA awarded the basic S-IVB contract modification which also accelerated the for this Saturn 113 second stage.142Also, completed the S-IVB Saturn MSFC's
fabrication hydrostatic
On December contract to
of the second
first firing
make
contract
S-II the
firing lasted
for
tests was 1.25 10 seconds. 144
20 NASA updated the amend the stage delivery as changed
than Boeing would provide booster. On December prime
components 143
V progress during the month included first F-1 engine tests on December 3 and
5. Duration seconds. The
The
of major test stage.
program Douglas
stage first
contract S-II
flight
meant
that
Boeing S-IC schedule. 1 MSFC
rather
the second S-IC flight 27 NASA amended the with
S&ID
in order
to
stage
"live"
instead
of 71
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 165
165° .gSFC F-I engine/_ring, test dummy.
14s
During
December
NASA
signed
agreement with the Military MSTS) ; by the agreement
Sea Transport the USNS Point
would
be used
of S-II
West sites.
Coast 147
January of the
1964 Saturn
gram. dummy
saw
of the
and flight
Service Barrow from
the
and
launch
last
phase
development
pro-
vehicles had carried Now flight testing of
began.
in January
technicians
in the
Douglas
second
suffered
a setback exploded
SA-5
stage
installed
booster. work
when during
it. 1_ An overpressurized of this vehicle as well 72
stages to test
the beginning
I research
stages
assemblies
vehicle
site
The first four second stages.
second Early
for shipment manufacturing
an
under the
way
S-IV
an attempt
oxidizer as damage
new
tubing
On January
24
at SACTO
all-systems to static
fire
tank caused loss to the test stand
DECEMBER
1963
- FEBRUARY
1964
and ground support equipment. On January 27 a blocked fuel line caused a two-day postponement of the SA-5 flight; technicians had failed to remove a flange On
used
in checking
January
29, 1964,
the NASA
LOX
line.
14a
launched the fifth
Saturn I. The liquid hydrogen-fueled second stage, flighttested for the first time, functioned perfectly. First-stage engines shut off as planned, 147 seconds after liftoff. The second stage separated, ignited, burned for 8 minutes, and with the attached instrument unit and sandfillednosecone attainedorbit as an earth satellite. Time
from
liftoffuntil orbit was i0.32 minutes.
The almost 19-ton satellitewas the heaviest ever orbited. 150 Meanwhile, components
MSFC continued and expansion
production of test of test facilities for
Saturn IB and Saturn V multi-stage rockets. NASA announced in January that construction budgets for Saturn IB and Saturn V facilities at Michoud and the
nearby
$6,534,000 FY 65.
Mississippi and
In February booster and
166. a.
Filth Saturn I {light b. second stage separation
166ao
Test
$61,991,000,
Operations respectively,
MSFC shipped Saturn instrument unit from
would
be for
I's sixth flight Huntsville to
b.
!i
73
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY
KSC; the tripbybarge
took
flew the S-IV-6 stage 19 MSFC successfully load fairing missions. vehicle
eleven
days.
151Douglas
to the Cape. On February completed meteoroid pay-
separation tests for SA-8 and SA-9 MSFC decided that the sixth Saturn I
would
have
In February, ponents for
an active
Chrysler the first
utilizing
some
cancelled
Saturn
of the
started two
guidance
system.
fabrication of comSaturn [B boosters,
components
I vehicles.
available
Second
from
stage
accom-
plishments included Douglas's fabrication work ontheS-IVB/IB-1 as well as further development of the S-IVB and battleship on an S-IVB
hydrostatic, test stages. facilities
all-systems, Douglas
checkout
stage.
dynamic, also worked _$3 167
167, which Saturn
Saturn
V progress
included
MSFC's
successful
hydrostatic testingon February 8 of the first (S-IC) test fuel tank. 154 During February Center
conducted
seven
static
engine.155At Edwards AFBan test on February 28 ended severe engine damage. explosion to structural Rocketdyne's successful.
other S&ID
S-II battleship assembly 74
in its
stage stand
tests
on
stage the an
F-1 engine systems in an explosion and
Rocketdyne attributed failure of the LOXpump. systems continued thrust
F-1
the 156
tests were generally manufacture of the structure
at Santa
Susana.
and
aft skirt
Saturn will be IB
I
LOX modified
tank for
FEBRUARY
- MARCH
1964
168
168_ Saturn V test fuel tank During
February
atmospheric
MSFC's Aero-Astrodynamics patedinawind data study. for
atmospheric
flightthey
jet
physicists Laboratory In the ten-day
streams
released
which
161 weather
of particisearch
affect
balloons
rocket (rawin-
sondes). program
This was part of an extensive measuring in the southeastern United States origi-
nated by designers
MSFC to in studies
In March
Kennedy
aid Saturn stage structural on sound propagation.
Space
Center
technicians
worked
overtime preparing for the sixth Saturn I launching. In Huntsville, MSFC performed vibration tests on the SA-9 dynamics and static the
instrument testing
SA-10 fired Center,
on
unit, S-IU-9, and also vehicles in the SA-8,
configurations. S-I-9,
MSFC
final
in a short
booster duration
began SA-9,
successfully
manufactured test.
157
by Douglas
continued second stage production and started static tests on the S-IV-7 at SACTO. t58 Chrysler completed fabrication and replacement of critical tubing assemblies for S-I-10 at Michoud. Saturn
IB activities
during
March
included
begin75
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
ning
of fabrication
S-IVB
CHRONOLOGY
of components
for the second
flight stage, the S-IVB/IB-2.
started assembly
of the S-IVB
159Douglas also
dynamics
test stage
in its assembly tower at Huntington Beach. in March the Center awarded a contract for Saturn
IB and Saturn
computers
and
data
V instrument
adapters.
IG0
Early to IBM
unit digital MSFC
also
arranged for integrating the eight systems Saturn IB and Saturn V instrument units. systems
are:
measuring,
guidance,
telemetry,
control, radio
tural, and environmental. Machines
(IBM),
will provide
plans,
specifications
first phase
Saturn IB mission
nated with
MSFC
Seal
Saturn
Beach, V
S_IDtechnicians
MSFC
moved
test plans,
during
the
assignments
as coordiCenter.
began
assembly
of the
(S-II)
conducted separation
23 NASA
Spacecraft
stage
flight
three
S-IC
162 first
hardware.
successful
techniques.
completed
and
the five-year
Manned
S_ID
second
of S-IC/S-II
and
strucBusiness
of the contract, t61On March
published
At
frequency,
a $5.5 million contract,
development
procurement
electrical,
International
under
of the These
tests
In Huntsville test
its load test facility on
March
Saturn V activities during
the month
fuel
tank
6.16_Other included
to
MSFC con169
76
169. Saturn I second stage production 170 S-IVB ,')ynamic._ Test Stage 1 71 MSFC statictest >:tand for Saturn V booster 172 Joining Apollo to SA-6 173 S-1,,8_ first indtistryproduced Saturn booster, being unloaded #om barge at MSFC 170
MARCH 171
struction facility
progress on in the Center's
Saturn
V static
fourS-IC
test
stages
built
at
built
stage,
the $30 million static West Test Area.
facility
will
in Huntsville:
Michoud and
- APRIL
by
Boeing,
the
first
be used
one
flight
!
NASA completed with
t
scope
Douglas
Saturn
I second
Aircraft
changes
increased
by $22 million. During module was mated to the
,t
172a,
Michoud. directly
Saturn to
I booster
stage
on
the Douglas
stages,
April
S-IV
SA-10
vehicle
would
17;
contract
April the Apollo command spacecraft. This Apollo
arrived
vehicle at industry-
at MSFC S-I-8 stand.
from
stage went On April
acceptance fired the April the Center decided
to make minor changes in the S-IU-9 on the of vibration test results. MSFC announced the
the ls4
negotiations
Corporation
The Chrysler-built MSFC's static test
29 Douglas successfully S-IV-7 stage. 166 During
MSFC-
completed in March.
payload was then joined to the SA-6 Cape Kennedy. 165 On April 24 the first produced
to test
flight
both to be builtby MSFC. The Center Dynamic Test Stand superstructure
test This
booster
a nonflight two S-IC
1964
carry
tection satellite as its payload. load, also to be used for the SA-8
basis that
a meteoroid
de-
This type payand SA-9 flights,
b°
173
/
77
SATURN will
ILLUSTRATED
aid
the
investigation
oroid particles spacecraft, ls7
to
During a Saturn in April, NASA of orbital
if the
NASA
feared
S-IVB
manned
from and
mete-
unmanned
IB procurement discussion early and MSFC discussed the problem
of controlled
Marshall
of hazards
both
debris.
sibility
CHRONOLOGY
inquired
reentry
of the
a critical
were
about
loss
redesigned
the pos-
S-IVB
of load
stage.
capability
to provide
this,
but
study of the problem continued. Early in April Douglas completed the S-IVB structural test stage at
Huntington
Beach.
dome of the second stages prooftestingofthe Michoud
April,
tank
Chrysler
and assembly
14 the
forward
stage for Saturn IB during production
propellant
during
fabrication
On April
dynamics test was damaged
assembly.
progressed
of the S-IB-1,
At in the
thebooster
stage for SA-201, the first Saturn IB flightvehicle. 168Chrysler technicians were putting together two major structural assemblies, adapter and the thrust structure, Early
in April
poration puter
MSFC
of America systems
the second stage for the S-IB-1.
negotiated (RCA)
to be used
with for
Radio
Cor-
19 ground
in chockout,
com-
static
test,
and launching of Saturn IB and Saturn V vehicles. Cost of these systems and seven ordered last year will total more than $47 million. They will be used at Michoud, Mississippi Test Operations, and Cape Kennedy Launch Complexes 34, 37, and 39.1G9 NASA completed instrument unit arrangements
for
Under came
a prime contract lead contractor
with previous
Saturn
IB
and
instrument
is expected to cost $175 period. 17°NASAdelegated to MSFC.
Meanwhile,
Saturn
million over management Army
facility
istics
sonic
environment
full-scale firings. engine production
Saturn and testing
dyne's Canoga Park Rocketdyne delivered 78
engineers
to study
and the
April.
May 1, IBM bewhich, together
unit assignments
bids for an MSFC and
V during
effective for work
noise data
to IBM, a five-year of this work requested character-
independent
of
IB and V upper stage continued at RocketSanta Susana sites. first J-2 production
APRIL
1964
I74
175
174. Mockup ot instrument unit for Saturn IB and Saturn V 175o First J-2 production engine delivered to Douglas engine
to Douglas
April.
m
Saturn
Vbooster
to
expand
during
for
the
facilities April.
S-IVB
battleship
in Huntsville MSFC
awarded
during
continued a con79
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
tract
worth
Long,
and
more Hagerty
CHRONOLOGY than
of Birmingham,
a 100-foot-highhangar of this million
S-IC stage. additional
program awarded search,
at
$2_/2 million
to house
to Sullivan, Alabama,
large
for
components
NASA provided almost $6 support for the S-IC booster
Michoud
in a
contract
supplement
the Boeing Company for additional requality assurance, and mission planning.
At Downey,
California,
of two giant bulkheads stage (S-II). NASA
S&ID completed
fabrication
for the Saturn V second also modified S&ID's con-
tract in April, adding more
than $12 million to
provide for vertical checkout of the S-If stages at Seal Beach and at Mississippi Test Operations. The Center studied ground (GSE) needs for Saturn V.
support equipment On April 22 MSFC
held a conference on electrical support equipment (ESE)
to be
furnished by
General
Electric.
MSFC personnel prepared a preliminary schedule of Saturn V GSE deliveries and installation. 176
176 Moving Saturn V booster tank bulkhead at ,_4ichoud 8O
APRIL 177
Early
in May
stress
corrosion
was
- MAY
1964
discovered
in
aluminum tube assemblies in the S-IV-6 stage. These were replaced without delay to the SA-6
|
flight.
.I
However,
minor
problems
S-IV-6 stage caused a six-day GSE compressor trouble held days. 1_2 MSFC Sat_lrn
negotiated I]3 ground
with support
in fueling
launch up the
delay flight
the and two
Douglas on May 19 for equipment and additional
Saturn IB second stages. On May 27 MSFC and Douglas personnel agreed on a Douglas program of computer reporting for MSFC on S-IVB/IB status. On
May
4 Saturn
V personnel
met
in Washington
to consider the Apollo assurance program.
reliability During the
and quality month MSFC
completed
integrating
computer
a
formation projects.
for
Saturn/Apollo during
interface
study
Sixth
Saturn
i Ilight
had been. in this flight tion
from
The vehicle's for the first the
in
May.
The sixth Saturn I flight occurred on May SA-6 flight was successful, as all preceding 177o
in-
from Saturn V systems, stages, and MSFC and Manned Spacecraft Center
continued meetings
plan
planned
28. The flights
guidance system, active time, corrected a deviatrajectory
caused
by pre-
mature shutdown of one of the engines. The payload, 37,300 pounds and slightly lighter than that of the record SA-5 load, included a boilerplate
Apollo
spacecraft
which
reentered
the atmos-
phere and disintegrated as expected after 3.3 days and 50 orbits of the earth. J73On the day this flight took place,
MSFC
and instrument Kennedy.
started unit
the seventh
on the
water
flight voyage
booster to Cape
At the end of May 1964 four Saturn I flights remained. Fabrication of stages for the Saturn IB was under way. Saturn V, the launch vehicle for the Apollo test that
stages would
mission, were test
taking them
began form, were
to emerge.
Ground
and huge facilities rising at MSFC, 81
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 178
a_
b_
c_
179
Michoud, Mississippi Test Operations, and contractors' sites• During June MSFC, ter, and associated Saturn from after
I flight.
Included
in their
telemetered
flight.
to ground
Analysis
board pected
guidance shutdown
This
ST-124
affirmed
system, of one guidance
decided
the
to
remaining
lighten flights
Saturn
SA-7 payload Cape Kennedy;
films
S-IV
in June
and vehicle 175 MSFC's
during
of the
on-
by unexengines.
became
active
stage fuel
on the reserve.
included
major successful
four 174
arrival
178,
Saturn
progress
ignition and corrected the SA-6 review NASA
by reducing
I activity
stations
success
system
stage After
82
were
severely tested of the first stage
shortly after second trajectory deviation.
Other
data
Censixth
eight onboard movie cameras recovered the flight and nearly 1200 performance meas-
urements the
KSC, Manned Spacecraft contractors evaluated the
of
components at ground firing
Saturn
I [light;
assembly
upper Vo b. stage, Co scale 179. graph tion
IB at [or
and
Saturn
time
o[
a.
LOX
S-IVB
V
sixth tank stage,
stage [or Saturn IB and [irst Saturn V second S-tl, [light hardware, Saturn V booster lull mockup at Michoud On-board camera photo.. o[ SA.,6 stage separa-
JUNE 180
of S-I-8,
the
first
booster
produced
industry; and start of assembly ment unit for the SA-8 vehicle.
181
by
four
uprated
to
Michoud
gines
of S-IU-8, 1_6
Chrysler
began
200,000-pound for
clustering
the
instru-
thrust
Saturn
tanks
stages
and
progressed
ties checkout delayed cold pulsion test las reported
with
of the
assembly
first
automatic
test
177
flight
of a faciliproblems stage pro-
stage, the S-IVB battleship, but successful checkout of the
prototype
en-
continued IB second
stage. Instrumentation flow tests on the second
structural test stage before support equipment development ington Beach was successful stage
H-1
IB booster.
booster, S-IB-1, during June. 178Douglas work at Huntington Beach on the Saturn
ST-124 guidance stable platform 181° H-I engine, uprated for Saturn IB booster 182, Saturn IB second stages, S-IVB, in Douglas tooling tower, Huntington Beach
private
NASA's middle-sized Saturn, Saturn IB, progressed during June to beginning of manufacture of the first flight booster. By mid-June North American Aviation-Rocketdyne had delivered the first
i80,
1964
testing. highlight checkoutof
DougS-IVB
A ground at Huntsecond
equipment.
182
83
SATURN With
ILLUSTRATED Saturn
announced
V
CHRONOLOGY
manufacture
during
June
that
continuing, it would
feasibility of increasing the weight-lifting of the vehicle by more than one-third. sought
proposals
preliminary million. 179
studies
on which
to base
expected
to
In early July MSFC completed the Saturn I dynamic test program tests of the SA-8, 9, and MSFC's Saturn I dynamic one of the complex V test stands.
capacity MSFC
contracts cost
the
for
about
$2
the last phase of with successful
10 vehicle test stand
of MSFC
NASA study
Saturn
configuration. would now be IB and
Saturn
183 a°
bo
84
I83, Fabrication o[ Saturn V; a. fuel and LOX tanks being built in Huntsville, lot the Saturn V [irst stage, S-IC, b, structural test stage thrust unit at Seal Beach, [or the Saturn V second stage, S-II
JUNE
- JULY
1964
184
185
184.
Aerial view ol IISFC Saturn test stands 185. S-IU-9 checkout Preparation
for
the
installation
of
a
venting bling lowing
system of the
seventh
in the
vehiclets
discovery
Saturn
nonpropulsive
of
second
I flight propellant
stage
to
reduce
payload
in orbit.IS°Also,
"stress
corrosion"
included tank tumfolcracks,
85
SATURN all
ILLUSTRATED
eight
engines
CHRONOLOGY
were
removed
from
the
SA-7
vehicle's first stage and sent back to Rocketdyne where aluminum alloy domesweresubstituted. 181 The tion.
final three Saturn Douglas employees
I vehicles at Santa
neared Monica
complefinished
inspecting the S-IV-8 stage before its delivery to SACTO for static test. Chrysler personnel at Michoud completed pre-static checkout of the final Saturn I Booster, S-I-10. m_ Meanwhile, MSFC personnel at Huntsville conducted checkout of instrumentunit,
S-IU-9.183
NASA amended
Besides
its S-IV stage
these
to add research and development more than $21 million. By
mid-July
Chrysler
all
tanks
the
for
first
at Saturn
events
contract
work
Michoud
(S-IB-2)
had
IB booster,
andby the ,:ad of the month installed rated H-1 engines, m4 Chrysler worked ond booster
components
in July,
with Douglas valued
at
clustered S-IB-1,
all eight upon the secand began
the
186
86
186. Chrysler personnel working on S-IB-2 thrust structure at Michoud
JULY third booster. verting Saturn
the
Chrysler Saturn
IV dynamic
personnel
I dynamic
test
stage.
1964
also began test
After
con-
booster dynamic
to a tests
this stage willbe used to check out Kennedy Space Center Saturn IB launch facilities. This modified stage was designated Douglas second stage July
included
rework testing structural ground
insulating
the
dynamic
test
stage,
on the battleship stage, and hydrostatic for leaks in the liquid hydrogen tank of the test
stage.
support
Saturn V booster eral weeks behind 187. Douglas personnel working on ground support equipment at Huntington Beach
S-IB-D/F. 1e5 Meanwhile, (S-IVB) progress during
186 Douglas
continued
work
on
equipment. production at Michoud schedule in July; parts
was sevshortages
187
87
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
accounted problems
CHRONOLOGY
for some of the delay. Third stage included rupture of the S-IVB hydrostat-
ic test stage because of two faulty weld repairs: tests were considered complete, however, because sufficient information had been obtained. The first stage
of tavo test
(S-II)
stands
was
for
completed
the
Saturn
by
North
Aviation at its Santa Susana Field July. On July 11 Douglas delivered V third
stage
test
hardware
American
Laboratory in its first Saturn
to Huntsville.
Flown
from Long Beach, California, this S-IVB forward skirt would connect the top of that to the vehicle instrument trait. Sat-urn
V contract
action
included
addition
$22 million to Rocketdyne's F-1 engine for acceleration of combustion stability and a variety of hardware and services, million
J-2
faeility
contract
to
1S8
1" second
stage stage
of over contract research a >'3.6
Rocketdyne,
a 189
88
188
First
from 189
Dougl_s Blockhouse
Saturn
SACTO during ante firing 190
190
_" hard,'are actl"
S.IV
SA 7 rise,,_
at
..9 accept-
JULY launch
vehicle
two contracts Douglas for automatic July
computer
checkout
equipment, Corps
acting
of
test
OnAugust
6 at Sacramento
position
agent
stage
NASA
named
the
for Mississippi
awarded a contract for construction of
Douglas
personnel
continued
work
to be orbited Each satellite,
satellites
launched
its
on mete-
would
During
Saturn
extend
the
"Pegasus"
seventh
suc-
by the last soon after
and orbit,
of 96 feet.
dual test
second stage of August the Fair-
month
after
winged horse of ancient mythology. with their development threatened the the last three Saturn I launches. 188 NASA
Mobile,
S-IC
separation
to a span
On
of
on the giant
Corporation
oroid detection satellites three Saturn I vehicles. wings
IBM,
respectively.
cessfully acceptance fired S-IV-9, the SA- 9 flight vehicle. _7 During
second
and
Engineers
as NASA's
the first stand.
its
with
contract
Test Operations construction, worth more than $17 million
child Hiller
1964
for more than $2 million each to S-IVB rocket stage items and S-IVB
13 ArmyTs
Alabama,
- AUGUST
the
Problems schedule of
I from
Cape
Kennedy on September 18. The two-stage rocket placed approximately 37,000 pounds of payload into an orbit similar to the interim orbit for future three-man Apollo lunar gee, ll2-mile perigee).
missions (145-mile Boilerplate
spacecraft
command
mentunit, satellite.
andthe spent S-IV stage comprised All major test objectives were
final
development
structural, development ture
and
patibility
of launch
test-jettisoning tem. Cameras donedbecause later
testing
guidance, testing design;
and service
modules,
of Saturn
apoApollo instruthe met:
I propulsion,
and flight control systems; of Apollo spacecraft struc-
demonstration vehicle
of physical and
spacecraft;
comand
of spacecraft launch escape sysejected after the flight were abanof Hurricane Gladys, but some were
unexpectedly
recovered.
Saturn I was declared operational, goal three vehicles early. 18s
After
this
achieving
flight its
89
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLGY
Saturn cluded
IB accomplishments MSFC's strengthening
start
of component
nonflight Chrysler tion,
assembly
other
with a new propellant
Saturn
I test
was
for this stage
reviewing
on a daily
the
basis,
onboth
had completed propulsion test
S-IVB
battleship
having
Saturn
found
that
affecting schedule. V engines
end of September. MSFC of F-1 firing tests, and
testing engines
F-1 engine had been
systems tested,
the
all-sys-
S-IVB all-systems checkout stage.
by the number
contractors.
components,
and to terminate
propulsion testing were second stage development
to stage
a
A Saturn IB program MSFC to extend the test
test program. The became a facilities
Progress
S-IU-200V,
stage
spider beam. Douglas loading in an S-IVB
stage, the S-IVBbattleship. assessment had caused period
for
inand
Saturn IB instrument unit. At Michoud, personnel were modifying flight tail sec-
and
tems stage
by late September of the structure
test
test MSFC program
problems
with
the Saturn 190 was
IB
191
substantial
had conducted a Rocketdyne was
at Edwards. accepted, and
Four J-2 delivered
!
191 192
I9I. Saturn IB nonflight instrument unit 192, Clustering Saturn IB Dynamic Test ,_tage at Michoud 193o S-IB tail section 194_ S-IB spider beam 193
194
9O
SEPTEMBER
195a.
North tion
American
powered The
Aviation-S&ID
of a 33-foot-wide Saturn
V second
Electro-Mechanical
was
comp/eted
fully
instrumented.
bulkhead stage Mockup
at
Downey, Douglas
- OCTOBER
announced for
the
during for
1964
complehydrogen-
Septemberfl the
California, personnel
S-II
2
stage but
not
began
196
b.
\ q.
195. Saturn engine manufacturing by Rocketdyne at Canoga Park; a_ J-2 engine assembly, b. F-I furnace brazing operation, c. F-1 engine assembly 196. Bulkhead for Saturn V second stage 197. mockup
197
Electro-Mechanical for Saturn V second stage, S-II
CQ
91
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY
fabricating the first flight third stage, the S-IVB/V-1.
version
of the
Saturn
V
NASA had completed negotiations with Bendix Corporation for the Saturn V instrument unit guidance platforms
by the
On October
end of the
6 MSFC
years Of Saturn test of the final indicated Chrysler
month.
concluded
three
I first stage booster.
that the S-I-10, at Michoud, was
major units in October, neared vehicles
by the
proceeded.
Hiller Company signed to provide electronics for satellites. would
dynamic
heat
by 193 The
of the
Pegasus
three
Saturn
last
During
October
I
Fairchild
conducted tests on a canister depower, communication, and data these meteoroid measurement
An adapted
module
with a test
went to the Cape Saturn I vehicles
Development
to be carried
one-half
manufactured satisfactory.
of the SA-9 vehicle and the other two
completion.
satellites
and
static testing The 156-second
Apollo
protect before
each its
spacecraft satellite
service from
injection
into
aero-
orbit
and
operation. Two flight booster stages for the Saturn IB were visible in the Chrysler Final Assembly Area at Michoud in October. The first, S-IB-1, was ready
for
inspection
before
ground
Tank other
clustering assembly
of the operations
S-IB-2 were
near
completion
was
S-IB-D/F,
from
Saturn
stage Douglas way.
converted
had four. Saturn As these S-IVB
manufactured, the propulsion
Douglas subsystems
procedure before J-2 engine-powered Progress
on Saturn
test
dynamic
IB second stages flight stages were
full-duration static S-IVB battleship. facilities
approved 92
full-duration the
operational
F-1
engine readiness
test under being
tests of chilldown
firing 194
of the
was substantial
in October. Personnel at the Rocket Engine Site at Edwards, California, conducted four secutive
and Also
Meanwhile,
was conducting and of engine
V test
firing.
was complete under way. I.
198
test
Test con-
firings
and
of the
new
198. Last Saturn I booster ground test
OCTOBER stand.
19s Dr.
von
Braun
assigned
operation
site to Rocketdyne behalf of NASA.
after officially accepting The MSFC Saturn V test
plex,
Test
Mississippi
Operations,
observed
1964 of the it on comits
199
199. Two of three Pegasus satellites for last Saturn I flights housed inside adapted service modules 200. Chrysler Saturn IB booster work; a. S-IB-2, bo S-IB-I, Co S-IB-D/F, do S-I-IO 20I. Douglas S-IVB stage fabrication area 201
200
S-IB-2
S-IB-I
S-IB-D/F
S-J. 93
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 202
202_ rocket Edwards,
F-I engine test at engine test site, California
203, Operations;
Mississippi a_ laboratory
engineerzng stand [or stage_ first
S-II, Saturn
Test and
buildJngo b test second Saturn V c,
test V
stand
stage,
for S-IC
203a,
third will
anniversary. conduct final
Mississippi ground firings
Test Operations of the two lower
stages S-IVB,
of Saturn V. Testing of the other stage, will occur at facilities in California.
S-IVB
will
form V.
have
in Saturn
been
flight-proven
IB flights
before
in modified its
use
in Saturn
A surprising recovery of films from the Saturn I flight took place in November. two
months
after
encrusted capsules, color motion-picture
the
flight,
two
seventh Almost
barnacle-
each containing 100 film in good condition,
feet of were
found, one on abeach of an island in the Bahamas, the other in San Salvador in Central America. Hurricane after the
weather had flight. 196
thwarted
recovery
efforts
Other Saturn I activity in November included erection of the SA-9 on the launch pad at Cape 94
b_
C_
_q
NOVEMBER
1964
206
204. Recovered cameras 205. S-IV-IO being moved to stand at SACTO 206. Chrysler Saturn IB fabrication and assembly area at Michoud 207. Auxiliary propulsion system for Saturn IB second stage 2O4
Kennedy.
The'
SA-8
vehicle,
to fly after
progressed; post-static checkout neared completion, instrument 205
under fired.
way, and the S-IV-8 stage was acceptance 197 Stages of SA-10, the final vehicle, were
manufactured;
Chrysler
was making
cations
and
repairs
in the
post-static S-IV-10
stage
checkout, to the
Douglas Sacramento
wouldbe
acceptance
was
207
SA-9,
of the S-I-8 stage unit checkout was
fired,
assembling
the
minor
modifi-
stage
before
S-I-10
transferred the facility where it
and in Huntsville
S-IU-10
MSFC
components
on
schedule. Development problems on the Pegasus satellite, payload for remaining Saturn I vehicles, were being solved, and there was considerable test
activity
on
parts
of the prototype
satellite.
With the first Saturn IB booster complete, continued manufacture and assembly three
during
November.
from them
Engines delivery
would be reinstalled of the stage to MSFC
SACTO time,
Douglas the
the first to Neosho
employees
auxiliary
Chrysler of the next
Technicians
engines shipped
19s
removed
booster, S-IB-1, and for LOX dome retrofit.
test
propulsion
at Michoud before for static test. At fired,
for
system
the for
first the 95 (.\_
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
Saturn
IB
consists provide
second
of six attitude
CHRONOLOGY
stage,
S-IVB.
150-pound control
This
system
thrust engines after the main
which engine
(J-2) shuts down and the S-[VB stage enters into the coast phase of flight. In Huntsville MSFC finished
assembly
ment unit, successful
NASA provided Saturn
of a nonflight
S-IU-200V. S-IVB battleship
for construction
V Complex
was
from
checking
the S-IVB
flight
systems tests. S-IVB battleship
The Saturn American
V second Aviation single
hydrostatic tank which
Florida,
contract first Saturn version, used
Company.
S-IVB
propulsion successful
test, test
Island,
firm-fixed-price At MSFC the
Boeing
out the
manufacturing
successful
of Pad B of NASA's
stage, S-IC-T, a nonflight assembled; _99 the Center
primarily
IB instru-
November 24 a firing occurred.
39 at Merritt
by an almost $20 million awarded in November. Vbooster partially
Saturn
On
dynamics stages, On firing
and
Douglas test
engine
ignition
stage,
conducting
November 24 a took place. 2°°
stage, S-II, activity by included, on November
tests certified
was parts
S-II
North 9, a
battleship
of the common bulkhead repairs, and buildup of 208
209
208° First Saturn V booster, a nonllight version lot static tests 209° First short-duration S-IVB battleship tiring
96
NOVEMBER the
structural
By
the
tions
end
of December Kennedy
the
S-I-8
stage
stored
for
the
was
Electric
vacuum
tests
Pegasus
A, the
arrived
at boost
Saturn
IB's
in
pre-static
was units
and
Others
Buildup o[ Saturn V stage, nonflight version [or tests 211. Pegasus B, folded, at le[t, and Pegasus prototype in space-cra[t integration area o[ Fairchild Hiller Company, Hagerstown
was
fabricating A.
flight
assembling assembling test
booster
SA-8.
stage
orbit
of the S-IB-1,
SA-9 earth. was
Chrysler
in assembled the
29
satellite, the
December.
spider
B.
vibration
where
booster,
in
2°1
December
detection
and
be
shipment
finished
from
space
The would
Pegasus On
meteoroid Kennedy
installations
Meanwhile,
210_ second
February fly_aheadof
checkout
began
but
would
had
schedule
date.
before
into
completing
flight
shipment
Company
preparaon
SA-9
first
first
SA-9
on Pegasus
Cape it
I launch
proceeding
for
period
since Hiller
would
Saturn were
ready
a brief
Cape
General
S-II-S.
established
Fairchild and
vehicle,
at Cape
toward
to
test
- DECEMBER 1964
S-IB-2
beam
for
S-IB-3.
S-IB-4
tail
section.
S-IB-D/F
was
modified,
210
/
!
211
r_
*
L
97
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
reclustered, December
CHRONOLOGY
prepared 22 departed
for shipment, New Orleans for
for dynamic testing. completed S-IVB stage, replica of the on December stages tobe
Douglas shipped the first S-IVB-D, a structural
flight stage, 8. 202 First
and
an
Apollo
united
for
complete
200-foot-tall
Dynamic
and on Huntsville
from Huntington Beach and second Saturn IB
spacecraft
were
vehicle
tests
in MSFC's
accomplished
a series
Test
Douglas
scheduled
Stand.
During
December
of test SACTO. second)
firings of the S-IVB battleship On December 23 a full-duration firing of the battleship occurred.
stage at (415203
Contract for a new Saturn V test stand was signed in December. This second S-II test stand at Mississippi
Test
Operations
will
million. The U. S. Army Mobile District, construction Mississippi Test facilities,
cost
first
single-engine
equipment. Laboratory( the
S-IC-T
MSFC's ME Lab)
LOX bulkhead
in less building
firing and
$8
Corps of Engineers, agent for NASA's awarded the contract
to Malon Construction Company of Koppers pany, Inc. In Huntsville MSFC prepared booster
over
of the
perfected
Saturn ground
Manufacturing manufactured
of structural
than a month, setting a bulkhead. 2o4
Comfor the V test support
Engineering and assembled test a new
stage
S-IC-S
record
for
213
.q_
212_ Saturn IB test first stage being readied for shipment 213, First Saturn IB test second stage, S-IVB-D, at turnover ceremony at Douglas
DECEMBER From
Michoud
diameter testing. first
Boeing
shipped
S-IC stage thrust 2°50therBoeingwork
Saturn
1964
- JANUARY
to MSFC
1965
a 33-foot-
structure for structural included building the
V fin constructed
away
from
Marshall
Center. North American Aviation-Rocketdyne accomplished Flight Rating Tests (FRT) of the F-1 engine; five of these would power the Saturn V first stage. Saturn V second-stage accomplishments included North American Aviation-S£_ID's testing
of
J-2
Mechanical
engine
Mockup
placement
of
LOX
gimballing at
214
S-II
S-IC-S thrust structur, on barge at Michoud 215 Internal ribs of first Boeing-buih Saturn V fin, assen_bled and ready for attachment of skins
stage;
S-II-S; and
completion
-
a load
completion A major American
of Preliminary
Flight Rating five of these
Tests would
(PFRT) of the J-2 engine; power each Saturn V second
stage
would
power
Two January
214
Electro-
California;2°Gre
of the
single engine firings. December was North
Aviation-Rocketdyne's
A
Downey,
bulkhead
and pressuretestofthe of S-II battleship milestone during
on the
and one Saturn 4,
IB test 1965;
the
stages the
S-I:B
third
arrived
stage. at
MSFC
on
Dynamic/Facilities
215
99
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
checkout poration's S-IVB
stage, Space Dynamic
CHRONOLOGY
S-IB-D/F, Division stage,
from Chrysler Corat Michoud and the
S-IVB-D,
On January 7, ME Lab began tion of S-IU-200S/500S.
from
Douglas.
structural
fabrica216
216o test
J-2
Engine
217, Replacement bulkhead
On January A, encased
13 technicians at KSC attached Pegasus in its Apollo service module shroud
and adapter, for scheduled
to the launch.
S-IV-9 stage The following
Complex37B technicians Command Module to vehicle. 20_
mated the Apollo the Apollo Saturn
At Douglas Aircraft Company's Center onJanuary 21 there was duration
static
I S-IV-10 contractor, tanks
firing
in preparation day at Launch
Sacramento a successful
for 480 seconds
stage. Onthis same date the Chrysler, began clustering
for the
S-IB-3
at the
Michoud
of the
BP-16 (AS-9)
Test fullSaturn
S-IB stage propellant Facility
and,
at MSFC, ME technicianscompleted assembly of the S-IU-10 and structural fabrication of S-IU200D/500D latter. _ 100
and
began
component
assembly
on the
gimballing o[
S-INS
217
\1£i
"
_i¸
JANUARY MSFC January
and a set of ground Saturn IB milestone
support equipment. Another on this date occurred when
KSC awarded contract for
Clarson, Inc., II modification
Workmen
R. E. Phase
34 service 209 at
structure
Seal
Beach,
31 completed assembly days ahead of schedule. Saturn stages in route to MSFC by barge 219_ Pegasus with wings [ully extended 220. Assembly o[ S-IU200D/500D for the Saturn IB and Saturn V
1965
completed negotiations with Douglas on 28 for the remaining eight S-IVB/IB stages
Complex launches.
218.
- FEBRUARY
a $2,179,000 of the Launch
to support
Saturn
California, of the
IB
on January
S-II-S
stage
five
218
219
MSFC on February I completed component assembly of the instrument unit, S-IU-200D/500D, for the Saturn IB and began Februaryof stones.
Saturn V dynamic 1965 with several
On February
19 the space
tests. Saturn
agency
NASA mile-
amended
Chrysler's S-I/S-IB contract (NAS8-4016) to include prelaunch checkout support, an amendment that added about $34,642,878 to the contract cost. 21° 220
Also in the Saturn program, MSFC announced the following
effective this date, major revisions in
the S-II stage program: mic test stage, S-II-D;
cancellation substitution
tural test stage, S-H-S, fer of the all-systems
as adynamic test stage,
Santa
Susana
assignment
to of
Mississippi the
facilities
Test
of the dynaof the strucstage; S-H-T,
transfrom
Operations;
checkout
stage, 101
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY
S-II-F, directly to KSC; to the Electro-Mechanical
and scheduling of an end Mockup test program. 2tl
On February 2 Chrysler pre-static checkout of the
at Michoud first flight
S-IB-1, and began preparations MSFC for static tests._12Across
for shipping it to the country in the
Saturn V program North American begantransfer of the S-II-S stage cal assembly building tural test tower, a task On this same date S-I-U-8 for shipment Workmen the S-II-S Saturn
S-II
at Seal stage, stage
completed S-IV stage,
Aviation's from the
S&ID verti-
at Seal Beach to the struccompleted on February 3. 213
ME technicians to KSC.
Beach first
prepared
the
completed on February 5 ground test stage in the
program.
The Mobile District, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, awarded a $4.3 million contract February 8 covering and Vertical
construction Checkout
of the Building
S-II stage Service and the Cryogenic 221
102
221. Cryogenics dock MTO alter completion
at
FEBRUARY Barge Service Building ations.214On this same ponent
assembly
cians
at Mississippi Test date S-IU-200F/500F
began
completed
at
MSFC.
structural
Opercom-
Also
fabrication
1965
techniof S-IU-
200s/500s. Douglas
completed
final
facilities
checkout
stage,
ruary Seal
12 and Beach.
NASA
barge
Hiller
S-IVB-500F,
r.Q!Ap_fortransportation
S-IVB on Feb-
only two days off,
A on
to SAC TO. 21s
completed for SA-9.
Corporation
Pegasus
of the
turned the stage over to NASA at Workmen then loaded it aboard the
At KSC technicians demonstration test
With launch
assembly
MSFC
technicians February
the
countdown
and Fairchild-
at KSC
14 so that
one
modified frame
or
logic group of the wind panels could serve as a detector for radiation-induced meteoroids• 216 On 222:
Meteoroid
February
Saturn
measurement
duringthe spacecraft,
capsule 223. SA-9 launch at Kennedy Space Center
lite 223
16
I SA-9
into
NASA
vehicle.
flight and BP-16, separate
launched
from
It performed
KSC
the
excellently
placed the Apollo boilerplate and the first Pegasus satelorbits.
The
Pegasus
A satel-
222
103
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
lite deployed exposed 2300 to gather
CHRONOLO@Y
its "wings 't to a span of 96 feet and square feet of instrumented surface
meteoroid
data,
sort
the
information,
and transmit it to earth receiving stations. launched SA-9 instead of SA-8 on this date SA-9's
S-I
stage,
built
through manufacture had S-I-8. 217 The
S-IVB-500F
in-house,
and testing
arrived
had more
NASA because
progressed rapidly
at SACTO
224
than
February
17
225
and installation began in Beta III test stand. On February 19 MSFC ME Lab began structural fabrication of S-IU-500FS. Douglas
shipped
February
S-IV-8
to KSC
23. 218Also on this date
completed
post-static
from
SACTO
Douglas
checkout
and
on
personnel repair
226 I
of the
S-IV-10 stage and removed the stage from Test Stand Beta II at SACTO. The following day Douglas initiated
pre-static
s-rVB Center
On February first stage, During
of the
February
fabrication for S-II-1
during
February
gine research uprating the (188K) approved
first
Space
28 the first industry-produced S-I-8, arrived at KSC from
subassemblies Also
checkout
stage, S-IVB-201, at the at Huntington Beach. 219
had
Saturn I Michoud. 220
of major begun
flight
Systems
NASA modified
the
Beach. H-1
en-
and development contract to include H-1 from 188,000 pounds thrust
to 200K for Saturn IB application. modifications to the Rocketdyne
gine production plus-fixed-fee ( CPIF). _21
contract (CPFF)to
NASA H-1 en-
converting it from cost-plus-incentive-fee.
cost-
On March moved the
1, 1965, workmen ahead of schedule S-IC-T out of MSFC's ME Lab and on
to the static
test
stand
where
they
erected
it in the
stand. The following day MSFC shipped the instrumentunit for SA-8 (S-IU-8) to KSC while technicians
erected
37B at the 104
the Cape.
S-I-8
stage
on Launch
thrust at Tulsa
structure
225. S-IC-T en route ME lab to test stand
structural
at Seal
224° S-II-1 fabrication
Complex
226. test
Erection stand
of
at MSFC
S-IC-T
from in
FEBRUARY
- APRIL
The S-IB-1 stage left Michoud aboard Palaemon for MSFC on March 6. Eight the stage arrivedat MSFC. Meanwhile, 10, ME assembly 200S/500S.
Lab technicians and structural
1965
the barge days later on March
completed modification
component of S-IU-
On March 15 Chrysler technicians S-IB-1 into a static test,stand at the
placed the MSFC com-
plex in Huntsville, and began readying the stage for static firing. 222This same date the S-IU-200S/ 500S
227_ Saturn IB Booster being moved into static test stand 228. Positioning S-IV on S-I at KSC
arrived
at
MSFC's
structural
KSC technicians
at Launch
Complex
17 erected the S-I-8
S-IV-8 stage and the and began a series
the stage
test
facility.
37B on March S-IU-8 atop of systems
tests including radio frequency checks, procedures, and simulated flights. 222
tanking
227 Technicians
tl
S-IC-D building. On
thrust
March
mental delivery At
at Michoud
.:v,,!
228 I
NASA
agreement schedule
MSFC,
component approved
on
In March for
in the
and
Boeing
24 installed vertical
March
29,
The
signed
S-IU-500V
following
the
assembly
a supple-
incorporating a new called Plan VIII.
began.
Saturn
V
structural
day
S-IU-500FS
assembly began. NASA on March 31 award of the Saturn IB/V instrument
unit contractto was the first tiated in the
roles
structure
26
fabrication
on March
IBM. This contract major incentive contract 224 Saturn IB program.
NASA the
delineated
Saturn
specific
IB/Centaur
(NAS8-1400) to be nego-
management
System
to MSFC
and Lewis Research Center. MSFC received proj ect management for the Saturn I B/C entau r System and
Lewis
In the performed
Saturn
management IB program successfully
of the
Centaur
on
April
in its
first
] the static
System. S-IB-1 firing,
105
SATURN with tor
ILLUSTRATED engine
after
cutoff 35
CHRONOLOGY
initiated
seconds.
by the
Also
control
on April
opera-
1 in the
IB
program NASA authorized Rocketdyne to increase the 200K H-1 engine to 205K to support Saturn IB application to even larger missions. 2_s 229
229. Saturn IB/Centaur Configuration: a_ payload, b_ Third Stage (Centaur_ diameter I0 feet !without shroud), c¢ instrument unit diameter 2I+7 feet. d .second stage _S-IVBJ diameter 21+7 feet, e+ first stage IS-IB._ diameter 21o4 feet 230 Static firing of S-tB-I at
On April Director, MSFC an
7 Major General Samuel C. Phillips, Apollo Program, NASA, forwarded to amendment to the FY 65 Research and
Development transfer
Appropriations. of
$5 million
to the
This Saturn
authorized IB Program 230
106
MSFC
APRIL
1965
231
x,
231, StatJc test of all five engines of Saturn V booster ¢S-IC-stage) for
Saturn
IB/Centaur
The
first
single-engine
MSFC
on April
design S-IC-T
later
test
personnel
fired the S-IB-1 stage the the test lasted 142 seconds. personnel
five of the S-IC-T
occurred
at
arrived at KSC on April inspection. Also on this
successfully test fired stage for 16.73 seconds.
Chrysler
16, Marshall
firing
2_G
9.
Apollo Spacecraft BP-26 10 and entered receiving date MSFC engine onthe
effort.
stage's
a single Three
successfully second The
static
time at MSFC; next day, April
successfully F-1
F-1 days
engines.
test
fired This
all first
107
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 232
S-IC-T five-engine test occurred two months of schedule and lasted 6.5 seconds. 227 On
April
20 workmen
loaded
the
S-IB-1
ahead
stage
on
board the Palaemon to undergo post-static
for its return trip to Michoud checkout and modification. 228
Pegasus
of the
B, second
tion satellites, arrived readied for launch. MSFC on April for an equitable This
resulted
micrometeoriod
detec-
at KSC on April
21 to be
22 began negotiating with Chrysler adjustment to contract NAS8-4016. from
NASA program
termination,f six S-I stages. continue throughout 1965. On
April
24 the
S-IB-1
redirection Negotiations
a_'rived
at Michoud
MSFC where it. had undergone this same date,' at Santa Susana, the first ship. _
five-engine
MSFC on April S-IU-200F/500F.
ignition
29
and would
from
static tests. On S&ID conducted
test of the
completed
S-II
assembly
battle-
of the
e
The S-IVB stage
contractor
aboard
loaded
the NASA barge
the
first
Orion
flight
on April
S-IVB 30
for
shipmentto SACTO. Also on April 30, during the finaltestofS-II-S at Seal Beach, a failure occurred 108
that
seriously
damaged
the
stage.
230
232. Deployment sequence o{ the Pegasus 233. S-IVB-201 enroute to Courtlan d, Calilornia, aboard the Orion 233
_i_ _
APRIL-
234+
S-IV B
MAY
1965
Productio,_ Sequence S&ID activity during April included installation and checkoutof Electro-Mechanical Mockup systems, beginning first test April
vertical assembly to ultimate load
also,
NASA
provide
engineering
for
Saturn
the
On May
4 the
performed
modified
a Boeing
services
V dynamic S-IVB
of S-II-F, and the S-II-S/D.
on
and test
contract
to
instrumentation
program.
battleship
a hot-gimbal,
the In
stage
successfully
full-duration
firing
at
SACTO to conclude the Saturn IB battleship hotfiring test phase. TM The following day S-IVB-201 arrived Orion. onthe
at Courtland, California, There workmen unloaded S-IVB
journeyto
SACTO.
201 arrived immediately stand. On
May
transporter
Pregnant MSFC additional
for the
The
next
remainder
day,
of its
May 6,
S-IVB-
at SACTO, and preparations for positioning it in the Beta
7 at Santa
10-second cluster after two previous Douglas Saturn
aboard the barge it and placed it
Susana
there
firing of unsuccessful
submitted Saturn
a successful
the S-II battleship attempts. 232
on May 10 delivered I S-IV stage (S-IV-10) Guppy
was
began III test
the tenth and to KSC aboard
last the
plan
nine
aircraft. the V
procurement S-IVB
stages
for
to the
NASA 109
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 235
235° S-II stage 236. La_lnch of SA-1 from pad37B at KSC Officeof Manned for approval. Final
period
Space
Flight
(OMSF)
of countdown
started on the afternoon a scheduled 35-minute
for
the
of May hold,
on May
SA-8
17
launch
24 and, except for continued uninter-
rupted to liftoff. Liftoff occurred the next day, May 25, as SA-8 flew in the ninth successful Saturn I flight. SA-8 placed in orbit Pegasus B. 233 Workmen cal
on May 25 successfully
assembly
of
the
completed
S-II-T,
verti-
in progress
at Seal
Beach since February. On May 26, the first stage S-I-10, for the tenth and last Saturn I launch vehicle KSC. During tiations
left
Michoud
on
type.234Also
assembly Beach.
of the S-II-2 And technicians
in
sion of the
S-IVB
the
V configuration.
Saturn
S-IU-10,
final
vehicles,
110
instrument
8 the
launch
completed J-2 contract
May
S&ID
from
unit
at KSC from
KSC technicians Complex
Promise
for
negoto an
structural
flight stage began at Seal at SACTO began conver-
battleship
arrived before
on Launch On June
barge
May MSFC and Rocketdyne for conversion of the
incentive
a day
the
the
for MSFC
erected
Saturn
the
IB to
Saturn
on June the
S-I-10
37B. support
crew
at KSC erected
I 1,
236
MAY
JUNE
-
1965
237
238
23";. Rocketdyne technicians checking out a l-2 engine 238. Point Barrow, Carrier for S-IVB-5OOF Stage
the S-IV-10 37B. KSC S-IU-10
atop the S-I technicians
on the
umbilicals
SA-10
vehicle
the
launch
of
CCSD shipped the Michoud to MSFC.
After
arriving
barge
Orion,
went KSC
stage on
and
at
Seal
began
stage
Beach
from
S-IVB-500F
MSFC workmen completed S-IU-500V on June 14. 235
structural
S-IB-2 on
personnel
stage
June
19
moved
it
preparation for The S-IU-200F/500F route
to
Michoud
KSC
it
would
Launch
arrived from
Complex
a
at
to
the
to await be
used 34.
for
On
the 13
trip
to
assembly
and test
facilities 19 at
of
Huntsville
of acceptance MSFC on this
June
June its
Chrysler static
on
on
reshipment in
12 from
SACTO
MSFC_s
where
series left
June
stage Barrow
The
equipment.
on
aboardthe USNS Point via the Panama Canal.
dock
connecting
support
S-IB-2
the
on Launch Complex June 9 erected the
MSFC
tower
in
firings. date en
to KSC.
At
checkout
of
SACTO
test
111
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 239
personnel attempted the first Saturn V development firing of the S-IVB battleship; the test ended after several seconds because of an automatic cutoff. 2_6
The Apollo ule
BP-9
adapter,
shroud
service
module
and
modified
by
Pegasus
C experiment,
for the
MSFC
service to
mod-
serve
as
a
arrived
at
KSC on June 21. Meanwhile at KSC, to avoid delay of the SA- 10 launch and also delay of planned Launch Complex 37B modification, NASA shifted the launch to July 30, ahead of the Gemini 5 launch._37 In a last captive-firing condition S-IC-S on June 21 withstood 140 design
load.
test at percent
MSFC of the
_
The Fairchild-Hiller
Corporation
shipped
the third 241
239° Launch Complex 34 gantry at KSC 240, Pegasus with partial deployment o[ wings 241. Opening o[ locks at MTF
Ir meteoroid on June After
detection 22 aboard
investigating
of the tracking
satellite, Pegasus C, to KSC the Pregnant Guppy aircraft. ways
Saturn/Apollo systems,
to reduce
onboard
the
complexity
communications
MSFC on June
and
28 recommended
and NASA approved deletion of the MISTRAM transponder and use of the more reliable AZUSA "C." Both were not required Onthis date also the S-II the first 112
240
"space
age"
for program success. 239 stage simulator became
hardware
to pass
through
the
JUNE Mississippi site's seven The Point
Test and
Operations one-half
Barrow
arrived
- JULY 1965
lock and mile canal
into the system.
at KSC on June
29 with
the S-IVB-500F. Arriving at KSC on June 29 was the last boilerplate version of the Apollo spacecraft command module. It arrived from MSFC along
with
During
the
June
launch
MSFC
escape began
system.
cbntracting
negotiations
with Rocketdyne for the 22 remaining engines neededfor the 12 Saturn IB vehicles. S&ID technicians the
at
third
A July
Seal
Beach
Saturn
i "third
began
V flight firing"
of the
Saturn
stage (Saturn V configuration) in an explosion and fire that instrumentation. 2_ On July
2NASAat
structioncontractto Saturn IB. Also premating checks, to the tioned
adapt at KSC,
systems
S_IB
static test Huntsville 242
After
of S-II-3,
IVB battleship
at SACTO resulted damaged wiring and
KSCawarded
a $6,745,000
con-
Launch Complex 37 for following completion of
checks
and
panel
deployment
technicians on July 6 attached Pegasus C S-IU-]0 instrument unit. They then posiBP-9 as the shroud for the satellite. A
July6 Saturn V milestone California, as workmen the S-II-1. _41 242.
assembly
stage.
a suggestion
E. Webb,
the name
occurred at Seal Beach, began vertical buildup of
by NASA Administrator of the
tions was officially Facility (MTF).
Mississippi
changed
Test
James Opera-
to Mississippi
Test
A faulty signal from the engine pressure switch on July 8 automatically ended a first attempt to static fire S-IB-2 in the S-IB test stand at MSFC. The test,
conducted
by Chrysler
only three seconds. But S-IB-2 stage successfully duration
35-second
On July started
12 component at ME Lab.
captive
personnel, the following performed a firing
lasted day the short-
in the stand.
242
assembly of the S-IU-500ST A 27-second S-II battleship 113
SATURN firing
ILLUSTRATED occurred
CHRONOLOGY
at Santa
Susana
(SSFL) on July 13; this date of the S-II program.
was 2_
Field
the
243
Laboratory
longest
firing
to
The S-IB-2 stage successfully completed its series of static tests at MSFC with a 2.5-minutefullduration
test
on July
20. _44
In the Saturn V program, on July at SSFL successfully accomplished firingofthe
S-IIbattleship.
The
performed
the countdown
successfully tion test countdown
20 technicians a 150-second
KSC launch
crew
demonstra-
for SA-10 on July 27. Final phase for the SA-10 launch was under way
of at
244
9:25 PM EST on July 29 and continued to liftoff without any technical holds. On July 30 SA-10, in the
final
formed
flight
test
excellently.
of the
Saturn
I program,
The
launch
vehicle
perinserted
its dual payload of Pegasus C and BP-9 into an orbital trajectory. This SAol0 flight concluded NASA_s Saturn I program. 24s
,L 4
,
245
243. $;_mrn SA-IO. during countdown demonstr_tion te.,_t 244. Launch o[ SA-IO [rom pad 37B, KSC 245. Technicians checking Rocketdyne-built J-2 engines on S-ll stage
114
JULY - AUGUST The second
Saturn
Huntsville
port
return
trip
IBbooster aboard
to Michoud
on July
A component malfunction at SACTO prematurely static
fire
21 static
During grams of the
On August successful
A to
load-
sequence proof cutoff in this
246
a development
engine
Itlastedfor
first
2.1
S-IVB-201
5.
from
run The
This
of S-IC-T firing
lasted
successfully of
452
to 200K
conducted the first MSFC S-IVB battlefirst
battleship completed test stand at MSFC.
stage firing
program
capability
seconds.
full-duration
MSFC on August onds. 249
full-duration
thrust
2 MSFC personnel ignition test of the
of the MSFC S-IVB tion of the J-2/S-IVB
The
propellant
countdown to the point
initiated
upratethe J-2 to 230K. 247
The
Console attempt
July in support of the Saturn IB and V proRocketdyne completed the flight rating tests 200K J-2 engine at SSFL. Also in July,
Rocketdyne
ship.
on its
30.
But stage
firing.
left MSFCTs
Pataemon
in Pneumatic ended the first
S-IVB-201.
ing and the automatic ceeded satisfactorily July
(S-IB-2)
the barge
1965
seconds
firing activa_48
occurred 143.6
performed at SACTO
at sec-
a on
247
246, S-IC static [iring 247, Computer room during $IVB-201 tiring at Sacramento 246
115
SATURN-ILLUSTRATED August
8.
The
CHRONOLOGY test
was
computer-controlled
throughout, marking the first matic system for performing out, propellant cle stage. 2s0 On
August
loading,
9 Chrysler
use of a fully autoa complete check-
and static
shipped
firingof
the
first
a vehi-
Saturn
IB
flight booster, S-IB-1, to KSC. The stage would be used in launch facilities checkout and then readied
for flight.
In the
Saturn
V program,
on
August
9 S&ID
at
SSFL accomplished a full-duration S-II battleship cluster firing; it terminated manually after 385.6 seconds. 251And the structure of the S-IU-200S/500S on August 13 withstood 140 percent MSFC, proving its structuralintegrity. while,
Boeing
assembly The
S-IB-1
of the and
workmen S-IC-4
at thrust
load
Michoud
limit at 252 Mean-
began
final
structure.
S-IU-200F/500F
on August 14 aboard the barge Michoud. This cargo was the first the new Port Canaveral Locks.
arrived
at KSC
Promise from barged through
248
116
249
248_ S-II battleship cluster [iring at SSFL 249. S-II A-2 test stand, Mississippi Test Facility
AUGUST The first
two-burn
full-duration
firing
of the
1965
S-IVB
battleship lasted tively, at SACTO
170 and 320 seconds, on August 17. 253
respec-
At
transported
stage
to
pad
on
KSC workmen
Launch
Complex
34 and
the
Augustl8.
MSFCused
the the
during propellant LOX and liquid
S-IVB-F facility
S-IB-1
erected the
it on the
stage
as a spacer
tankings hydrogen
for
to verify loading
systems. On this same day workmen also completed erection of the S-IVB-500F stage and the S-IU-200F/500F on Launch Complex 34 at KSC and began
vehicle
checkout
of the
Conclusion
of the
while,
occurred test for
Saturn
V S-IVB
assembly
date and
technicians delivered
On August 29 MTF operations lation of S-II stage simulator for The
facility
battleship
at SACTO on August 170 and360 seconds.
at MSFC on this
S-IU-500V tractor.
250
IB launch
Also onAugust 18 Chrysler personnel completed pre-stati'c checkout of
program two-burn
250. S-IVB-201 being hoisted on the Steel Executive
Saturn
facilities. at Michoud S-IB-3.
test
20 with a 254 Meancompleted
it to test
con-
began with instalinto Test Stand A-2
checkout.
S-IVB-202
stage
arrived
at
SACTO
from
Huntington Beach on September 1. The following day Douglas technicians installed the stage on the SACTO Beta III test stand modification not accomplished
and continued at Huntington
stage Beach
because of parts shortages and design changes. _ss Then on September 3 Douglas transported the S-IVB-201 to the Courtland dock, loaded it on board the California,
Orion, where
freighter Steel to KSC. _
On
September
S-IVBbattleship it to Tullahoma, mental testing.
and shipped it to Richmond, it would be loaded on the ocean
Executiv_
8 workmen
for the rest
at SACTO
from the Beta Tennessee,
of its
journey
removed
the
I stand and shipped for engine environ-
117
SATURN
iLLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 251
252
251_ Altitude test facility at Tennessee
simulation Tullahoma,
252_ Altermath of Hurricane Betsy at Michoud
Hurricane 8
Betsy
P.M.
on
building
damage
NASA
barge
damage
to
The as
entered at
Rouge,
its
IBM
September
118
vehicle
the
the
journey
digital
area
severe
with
from
9 delivered computer
stage
near
Baton
to
to NASA and
$89,138.
S-IB-3
during
Michoud
the
inflicting
Betsy
damage
and
washed of
the
about
roof
levee,
amount
Hurricane without
day of Huntsville.
launch
in
Palaemon,
weathered
Michoud left
It also
upon
barge
Louisiana,
on
9 and Michoud.
Promise the
NASAbarge cargo,
the
September
launch
the
first
MSFC
the
flight vehicle
in
SEPTEMBER
1965
253
I
254
253.
Damage
254. upon
at tdichoud by Hurricane Betsy NASA barge Promise levee alter H_rricane Betsy
255_
Hurricane Betsy leaves Promise on levee
255
119
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
data adapter hicle. 257 The
CHRONOLOGY
(LVDC/LVDA)
upper
stage
testing
for
in the
the
Saturn
SA-201
ve-
IB dynamic
test program ended at MSFC on September 11. S-IVB battleship at MSFC fired for 400 seconds on September 15, a full-duration test. 258 On September
16 the
S-IB-3
Chrysler test engineers in MSFC's S-I:B test
arrived
at MSFC
would static stand before
where
fire the returning
stage it to
Michoud. The S-IVB-201
arrived
at KSC aboard
the
SS Steel
Executive September 19; workmen unloaded the stage and moved it to the special assembly building for
receiving
inspection.
On
September
29 the
integrated Beach.
ruptured
and dis-
during a structural loading test at Seal The failure occurred at 144 percent of
limit load on the sitated redirection stitution
S-II-S/D
of the
aft skirt. of the S-II-T
This failure S-II program
as a dynamic
test
necesby subvehicle 257
120
256
256.
S-II-S/D
ruptured
structural
loading
257. fabrication
S-IU-200/500S stand No.
during
test on 1
SEPTEMBER 258
following
static
testing
Workmen
at Seal
at MTF.
Beach
During 258_ Loading S-II-T on AKD Point Barrow 259_ S-IC-T static test firing
September
259
completed
the S-II-T stage on September onthis date IBM at Huntsville tion of the S-IU-200S/500S-II. NASA
1965
manufacture
of
30. Meanwhile, completed fabrica260
added
to the Boeing
con-
259 I
tract
(NAS8-5608
provide engineering
in
and
Workmen flight stage
Schedule
services
at
KSC
II)
integration on
$4.5
connection
October
Pratt search
1 mated
a two-year
GSE.
the
S-IVB
to the S-IB-1 on October 1
incentive
_ Whitney for follow-on and development effective
to
systems
of mechanical
stageforAS-201 (S-IVB-201) on Launch Complex 34.261Also
NASA approved
million
with
contract
RL10 this
contract
covered
qualification
of
(uprated
version)
for Centaur
application
with
engine date.
reThe
RL10-A-3-3 and
con-
tinued flight support. In the Saturn V program on October I the S-II-T, S-II all-systems stage, left Seal Beach on the Point Barrow bound for MTF. On
October
assembly pre-static The first occurred
6 workmen of the S-IB-4 checkout.
at stage,
Michoud
completed
and the stage
entered
S-IC-T firing in automatic configuration at MSFC on October 8 for a scheduled 121
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 260
261
262
duration of approximately45 ber 13 the S-IC-Darrived
seconds. at MSFC's
262 On OctoSaturn V dock
after leaving Michoud dock aboard Poseidon October 6, the Poseidon's Two days V dynamic The
later technicians at MSFC began testing of the S-IU-200D/500D.
S-II-T,
MTF, systems S-II-T
later
first
"live"
launch
vehicle
arrived at KSC on October workmen unloaded it AF
for
technicians
preIaunch
Douglas technicians S-[VB-202 pre-static
at
the
S-IU-201
date
S-IB-3
the it to atop
vehicle,
static
a test
Test
263
days
performed
the S-IB 2G4
lnstalhmon
unloaded at S-II-A2 of
S-II-T
in MFT test stand A-3 2_L'l SolVB-202 in.stalled
on October 26 completed the firing checkout at SACTO. successfully
260 S-IC-D being from barge Poseidon 261 SolI-T arriving stand at MTF 262.
on Launch Complex 34. That 25, Apollo Command Module
2.5-minute static firing in stand at MSFC in Huntsville.
122
stage
Five
009, part of the payload for the AS-201 arrived at KSC and entered checkout.
this
Saturn
20 aboard and took
checkout.
at KSC erected
the S-[VB-201 stage same day, October
On
barge trip.
arrived October 17 for start of stage alltesting. S&IDpersonnel at MTF placed into Test Stand A-2 on October 19.2G_The
S-IU-201 Palaemon: hangar
the first
Stand
Beta
3 at SACTO
in
OCTOBER
On October at Michoud
- NOVEMBER
28 Rocketdyne delivered the first two H-1 engines
1965
to Chrysler uprated from
200K to 205K. Eight of the uprated engines would add about 40,000 pounds thrust to the S-IB stage and increase the 1,640,000 pounds.
264. 265.
H-I engine S-II comn_on bulkhead test tank fCBTT; 264
total 265
thrust
the
stage
Difficulties experienced with the stage power system at SACTO terminated S-IVB-202 29. 266 Also tractor
acceptance on October
shipped
firing attempt 29, the S-IVB
S-IVB-203
to
electric the first
on October stage con-
to SACTO.
During October construction plex 39 pad A ended at KSC.
Launch
Com-
NASA on November 1 increased Chrysler's tract NAS8-4016 some $18,909,000 to
concover
additional program
systems on this
Engineering the first
265
of
of the
engineering. In the Saturn V date the Propulsion and Vehicle
(P&VE) series of
Laboratory at MSFC S-IU-200S/500S-II
On November
2 the
second
firing
ended
at SACTO
attempt
of mainstage
because
S-IVB-202
November
3 with
The final
scheduled
head test November
tank 6.
the
burst
limit
was
program.
at Michoud checkout S-IVB-202 seconds
malfunction
stability monitoring Test Stand Beta I on
installation test
seconds
of
of the
S-II
S-IVB-203. common
bulk-
(CBTT) ended at Santa Susana on The CBTT was tested to 1.4 times pressure.
a major 268
On November
0.41
of a component
Completion
tests, which verified the integrity bulkhead, the liquid hydrogen tank, skirt,
acceptance
after
in the J-2 engine combustion system. 267 SACTO activated
began tests.
8the from
milestone
Saturn Huntsville
mainstage)
of the common and the forward
in the
IB stage
acceptance
S-II
S-IB-3
to undergo
and modification. stage performed
of these
stage
arrived
post-static
The next day the a long-duration (307 firing
at SACTO; 123
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY
a malfunctioning liquid hydrogen
mass
sensing
unit in the propellant utilization(PU) subsystem prevented completion of the testto fullduration.269 Pre-static checkout of S-IB-4, Michoud on this date, revealed
completed at no significant
problems. Workmen
at Seal Beach
completed
subassemblies on November the aft LOX bulkhead. There test
was
a November
of the
LOX
S-IB-1
loading
and
drain systems. of 100 percent;
all
S-II-1
25 with
assembly
30 automatic
of
LOX loading
at KSC to verify replenish
major
the
systems
automatic
and the
LOX
The stage withstood a LOX load during the loading all stage systems
functioned normally. 27o On this data Chrysler technicians completed assembly of S-IB-5 and moved it into the checkout station for pre-static checkout. 266
I
OXIDIZER
?
PROPELLANT
9
TURBOPUMP UTILIZATION
VALVE 3
HIGH-PRESSURE DUCT Et.ECTRICAL
CONTROL
5
PRIMARY FLIGHT INSTRUMENTATION PACKAGE
6
HIGH-PRESSURE
7
FUEL MANIFOLO
8
THRUST
124
CHAMBER
ANTi-FLOOD
11
AUXILIARY
PACKAGE
MANIFOLD CHECK VALVE FLIGHT
INSTRLWEJ_ATION
PACKAGE
OXIDIZER
4
EXHAUST
i0
12.
CUSTOMER
[3
ACCESSORY
CONNECT DRIVE
LINES
14
GH Z START
BOTTLE
D
CUSTOMER
CONNECT
16
OXIDIZER
iNLET DUCT
(EIrCTRIC_U
PAD
LINES
FUEL DUCT
IPNEUMATIC)
266° Major components J-2 engine
o{
NOVEMBER In November NASA contract would be NASA
in addition
announced amended
asked
- DECEMBER
that the J-2 engine to add 48 engines.
Rocketdyne
to provide
for delivery in 1967 and saw the completion at Seal
Beach S-II-2.
deliveries
of
achieved (463.8
all
PU
1 the
occurred
indicated
and
Boeing
for
S-IVB-202
objectives mainstage)
Cutoff
system
MSFC
engine
all test seconds
SACTO.
stage
December December S-IC-T occurred The
S-IB-4
successfully
when
than one percent
December
Palaemon,
at the
LOX. _2
3 negotiated
a
Schedule III effective
31, 1965. In the Saturn V program on 16, the final captive test firing of the in original automatic configuration at MSFC. 273 stage
departed
7 aboard the NASA barge test site at Huntsville December
and
during its full-duration acceptance firing automatically
less on
S-II-1
supplemental agreement establishing (Saturn V launch operations support)
Apollo capsule
52
additional J-2 engines 1968. _7_November also
On December
267.
1965
14 moved
unloaded
Michoud Palaemon MSFC the
it to the MSFC
on December for the MSFC workmen on
stage static
from test
the
tower,
267
125
SATURN and
ILLUSTRATED
completed
following
its
day,
Douglas
installation
also
completed
static
CHRONOLOGY
Phase
checkout
in the
in the
and
tower.
Saturn
I of the
IB
S-IVB-204
successfully
testing
of the
J-2
at KSC erected
engine
atop the SA-201 34 on December
Apollo
launch 26.
vehicle With
spacecraft the vehicle 201 (AS-201). 277
became
On December quarters conversion cost plus this
29 MSFC
for approval of the incentive
change
was
a
preparations
at the
level, whichbeganon December 2, ended fully at SSFL on December 17.27G Technicians
pre-
performed
simulated flight test before beginning for shipping the stage to SACTO. Qualification
The
program,
200K
success-
Spacecraft
009
at Launch Complex the addition of the the
forwarded
Apollo/Saturn
to NASA Head-
a supplement
providing
for
Boeing S-IC stage contract fee; the cost-effective date
July
to of
2.
During December MSFC initiated negotiations with Rocketdyne for a combined J-2 research and development contract NAS7-190 from aCPFF to a C PIF
contract.
from
the
three
In December Pegasus
preliminary
flights
data
indicated
that
the
Saturn Apollo spacecraft structure as designed would be adequate to resist meteroid penetration. 278 Two F-1 turbopump explosions occurred, one at SSFL and one at Edwards. MSFC announced on January tion of two nine-month study the
feasibility
engine launch
inthe S-II vehicle:
American and
(2)
contract
of using
3, 1966, its negotiacontracts to determine
an
improved
J-2
and S-IVB stages of the (1) a $148,000 contract
Aviation,
developer
of the
a $225,000
modification
with Douglas
Airc raft Company. give
stages
279
126
it powered
more
flexibility.
S-II
to an
Propulsion and Vehicle Engineering was seekingto simplify the J-2 and
rocket Saturn V to North stage, existing MS FC's
Laboratory it and the
DECEMBER
1965
- JANUARY
1966
268
268_
Studies on reu,sable transport system On January 4 MSFC announced seven new Saturn contracts, five prime
stage
contractors
the awarding of of them to Saturn
for continuation
aimed at improving S-IB and Saturn hicles. North American, Boeing, each received one of the contracts. remaining
of studies V launch veand Chrysler Douglas re-
ceived
two.
The
contracts studies
were relating
for continuation of engineering to a manned reusable transport
system:
(1)
Lockheed
Aircraft
a nine-month
two
$237,000
Corporation
of the
seven
contract
to study
to
possi-
bilities of developing a reusable transport system based onpresently approved launch and space vehicles and (2) a six-month $51,000 contract to Martin-Marietta Corporation for a comparison study of launch modes for reusable launch vehicles. Both contracts would be under MSFC)s direction. 274 NASA
announced
$7,837,500
contract
on
January to the
7 the Radio
award
Corporation
of a of
127
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 269
270
128
269. S-II battleship [iring, Santa Susana 270 S-IC-D erected in S-IC test stand _ISFC
JANUARY America, California, logistic
Aerospace effective support
out systems. managed by
Systems Division, December 1,
of Saturn
ground
checkout announced
Engineering Tullahoma,
Van Nuys, 1965, for
computer
maintenance support, the Saturn ground com-
systems. that the
Development Tennessee,
On Air
this same date Force_s Arnold
Center (AEDC) was being expanded
test of a third stage (S-IVB battleship) Saturn V launch vehicle. 27s A ground-test
check-
Under the two-year contract, MSFC, RCA would provide spare
parts, logistic management, and report services for puter MSFC
1965
{battleship)
version
near for
of NASA's
of S-II,
second
stage of the Saturn V, was static fired at Santa Susana, for 354 seconds in a successful January 12 test
of
its
engine-gimballing
and
LOX
cutoff
systems. Saturn
V milestones
on
January
13 involved
first stage and instrument unit. booster went into the Dynamic Test on this date, and NASA awarded modification unit contract Rockville,
hicle 271o
Barge Poseidon used to move Saturn stages
Michoud first
The S-IC-D Stand at MSFC a $4,183,066
to its existing Saturn V instrument with IBM _s Federal Systems Division, Maryland.
manufacturing At
the
"redundant on stage
January went
The
modification switch
14 a Saturn aboard
the
was
for
selectors." V launch
barge
ve-
Poseidon
271
129
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ILLUSTRATED
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for shipment to KSC. On this same invited aerospace industries to propose studies
of integrating
experiment
date NASA definition
equipment
in
spacecraft Applications
that could be utilized for manned Apollo missions. Two or more firms would
be selected
for negotiations
study
contracts.
Workmen completed second Saturn V first at MSFC's
of parallel
nine-month
_0 horizontal stage S-IC-2,
Manufacturing
assembly of the on January 17,
Engineering
Laboratory, 272
272_ S-lC-2
S-IC-I frightl _ left ) in transit
._4 S FC 273, S-IC-T te._l
and
the
stage
Laboratory
was
moved
to Quality
for post-manufacturing
this date of General
technicians Dynamics'
from Wyle Engineering
Removal
S-IC-T
of the
checkout.
completed S-IU-500V
The unit went Manufacturing assembly. 281
vibration instrument
Laboratories Laboratory
from
the
static
on January 20 at MSFC concluded planned test program at Huntsville. the booster for storage
of S-IC-4. NASA that the hydrogen-fueled
engine
successfully
130
completed
removed
fron_
at MSFC
273 On
testing unit. to the for dis-
test
tower
the S-IC-T MSFC moved
to Manufacturing Engineering and later conversion to the
configuration January 20 had
Assurance
stand
building functional
announced on J-2 rocket a series
of
and at
%
JANUARY qualification over .ti0n
tests
to
its design operating tests ended when
successfully 470 seconds.
30
times This
demonstrate
These engine
for a total accumulated as
A full-duration (2.5-minute)
qualificaoperated
firing time of duration was
long as the in flight.
engine
test for the fourth
(S-IB-4) occurred
at MSFC's
Test Area facilityon January 21. conducted
1966
performance
range. a single
approximately eight times would be required to operate
S-IB booster
- FEBRUARY
East
Chrysler had
an earlier test of the engine, but for
only 35 seconds. 274
274, alter
Moving o[ $-IVB-501 post-manu[acturing checkout 275. MSFC dock activity 275
Douglas personnel at Huntington Beach ended postmanufacturing checkout of the Saturn V S-IVB-501 third stage on January 28. Structural fabrication and
assembly
of the S-IU-501
Huntsville on this date.
ended
Early in 1966
at IBM MSFC
formally redesignated the S-II all-systems stage (S-II-T) as the all-systems test/dynamics test stage (S-II-T/D). 282 MSFC announced on February boosters were aboard barges,
2 that two S-IB flight one en route to the 131
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the Kennedy IB flight
CHRONOLOGY Facility
Space
and
Center.
booster
NASA's
second
one
to
within a few days aboard the barge Promise. first S-IB vehicle, AS-201, meanwhile,
The was
at KSC.
Workmen at MTF completed integrated of the GSE for S-II-T/D of February 3. Rehearsal
countdown
at KSC for
the
checkout _3
S-IB/Apollo
mission was delayed 24 hours on February cause of "minor problems and resulting fatigue.
"
yet known
276
Saturn at KSC
launch
was
other
due to arrive
awaiting
S-IB-2
the
NASA
spokesman
if the delay
said
would
affect
that the
5 becrew
it was
not
rescheduled
February 22 launching. Meanwhile for AS-202 arrived at KSC via barge
the S-IB stage where it was
unloaded ceiving
AF for reof three fins.
and transported inspection and
to hanger installation
277
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SY$.
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Quality
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and Reliability
had been 132
"time
tested"
scheduled, version of
emphasize testing. 15 that the first stage
vehicle
prior in more
•
*
Assurance Laboratory completed, as the checkout of S-IU-500FS, a ground the Saturn V instrument unit. 284 MSFC continued to nouncedon February
DA_
._Yl,
to its than
maiden 5000
It anof the flight single-
276, AS-201 awaits launching, KSC 277, Instrument unit configuration
FEBRUARY engine tests. In addition to tests of the H-1 rocket engines, vehicle tests. 2as Technicians S-IC-1
met
NASA's
Saturn
Beach,
Point stage, V
Barrow. would
cedures,
successfully
17.
all
the S-II
on
facilities
verify
MSFC
on February
seconds,
Seal
278° H-1 engine 279° Transfer of S-II-F and inter.stage from dock to VAB, KSC
at
S-II-F,
and
stage 20 for
facilities, operations.
vehicle,
and
techniques,
40.7 _6
(S-II-F)
left
aboard
AKD
KSC
stage
the
lasting
objectives.
second
engine been 72
test-fired
a nonflight as
single had
firing,
test
facility
checkout
launch
The
main
February
serve
these there
1966
version
of the
of the would
test
handling
In a space
Saturn and pro-
hardware
278
279
133
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movement on the following day, the instz_ment unit for the second S-IB launch vehicle (S-IU-202) arrived at KSC from MSFC aboard the Promise. A booster for launch site. On February
this
S-IB
was
already
24 and 25 MSFC technicians
captive-firing launch vehicle
tests of (S-IC-1).
February 25 static to terminate it after
firing 83.2
observer
an
received
the
days
for the second
reading
However, second
cause
of
on three
continuing
bad
Complex
34.
The
suborbital
Apollo
static
firing
firings
were
consecutive
vehicle
SA-201's
first
days
NASA on Feb-
performed
In liftingthe had
be-
vehicle, SA-201, from KSC Launch No major unmanned spacecraft,
generated
FTI'
1.6
million 283
280, S-IU-202 rnovinf_ to KSC 28I• SolC develop,_ent test .stand_ ttuntsville 282. AS-201 Iaunch_ KSC 283, Uprated Saturn 1 launch
282 SPACECRAFT
INSTRUMENT
UNIT
SECOND
SIAGE
(S-IVfi}
F|RST
134
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throughout
phases of flight. occurred in this
stage
a
static
weather,
flight.
from
S-IC-1
ruary 26 launched with its Saturn the Apollo Spacecraft 009 payload the powered and coast system malfunctions
281
MSFC scientists static firing in two
were met and that no additional required. 2_7 postponement
continued
first stage Saturn V MSFC scheduled the
incorrect
in this
all criteria
KSC
for 125 seconds but had seconds when a red-line
faulty transducer. determined that
After
at the
STAGE
(S-I
I_)
vehicle
con [iguration
FEBRUARY
- MARCH
1966
pounds of thrust. After burning 2 minutes and 26 seconds, propelling the Apollo to 37 miles altitude,
the
booster's
with kerosene separated from
and the
a 200,000-pound engine, ignited. On
February
captive
firings,
MSFC
shipped
Onthis
same
S-IVB-504 Beach, checkout
liquid
28
into
NASA
thrust
burning _8
S-IB-5
eight
at
S-IVB
MSFC
the
S-IU-500F
with
the
285_
S-II-F
stage
arrival, KSC S-IVB facilities at Huntington Beach
liquid
stage oxygen,
moved
the for
to KSC on March of the Douglas
Boeing
S-IVB-503 in began
Company
1. and
Huntington factory
a March
4
converting the Saturn V from a fixed fee to an It was the first Saturn
stage contract to be converted to an incentive type. At the time of this conversion the Boeing contract was valued at $850, 114, 303.re°Also on March 4 the S-II-F Canaveral,
stage and Florida.
OnMarch
10MSFC
its interstage
shipped
unit (S-IU-500FS) aboard craft to Huntington Beach, S-IVB stage in a simulated 284_
fueled
in preparation
California, and workmen of the S-IVB-502. _9
supplemental agreement first stage (S-IC) contract incentive fee contract. 284
stand
assembly at
and
workmen
test
continued
signed
engines,
(second)
hydrogen
a static
date
H-1
IX)X, shut down and the stage S-IVB. Four seconds later,
a Saturn
arrived
at Port
V instrument
the Super Guppy airfor testing with an space environment.
285
135
SATURN The
ILLUSTRATED following
Huntington
Beach
undergo workmen instrument
the
for
S-IVB-501
stage
Sacramento
where
Aircraft a March
Corporation 18 acceptance
left
at stage
successfully test of the
KSC and
confourth
287
Saturn S-IVB-204 stage at its Sacramento Center. Technicians fired the stage for 455 seconds. 297
NASA announced March 24 that it would negotiate incentive contracts with two major aerospace firms for the procurement of five additional Saturn V first NASA
stages
(S-IC)
would
and
negotiate
33 F-1
with
the
rocket
engines.
Boeing
Company
for the stages and with Rocketdyne engines for these stages. The five would cost in excess of $165 million.
for the F-1 S-IC stages These con-
tracts
to launch
were
in line
Apollo/Saturn
with
V space
NASA's
vehicles
plan
15
by the end of 1970. 293
Mating of the S-II- F with the S-IC- F stage occurred at KSC, March 28. On the following day workmen mated
the
day
after
On
March
fornia
S-IVB-500F they
erected
30 the
to MSFC
with the
the
S-IVB-500-ST
aboard
the
S-II-F,
and the
S-IU-500F.
Super
flew
from
Cali-
Guppy. 288
136
286
it would
acceptance firing. Meanwhile erected and mated the S-tVB unit of the AS-202.2_1
Douglas ducted flight Test about
day
CHRONOLOGY
286_ S-IVB {acilities at SACTO 28L F-I engine 288° S-IVB aboard Super Guppy
MARCH
On
March
at
MSFC.
captive second
J-2
production Rocketdyne
fired
were
major
Chrysler
Corporation
the S-IB-5
for about
and longest
duration
firing
Saturn
headlines personnel
2.5 minutes,
the
for the booster.294
289
289, S-IB stage erection in test stand, Huntsville 290,
31 there
1966
at
290
137
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY
April 1 NASA announced of its first hydrogen-fueled being
transferred
Cleveland, had
to
Ohio.
powered
the
follow
the
Lewis
Research
A cluster Saturn
fore the conclusion the previous year. In an April in sequence launches.
that project management engine, the RL10, was of six
I's S-IV
second
of MSFC's
Saturn
AS-203
mission.
development mission Apollo spacecraft. 2s5 announced
$7,634,742
The
hicle.
H-1
American for three
cluding support. The third for
on April
In addition
North called
KSC
arrived
and
purpose
would
not
be-
for the
to the engines
of the
carry
purchase
an existing
engines
under
a
contract
S-IB the
an
launch
contract
of vewith
Aviation's Rocketdyne Division years of support services, in-
training,
field
S-IB booster on April at
stage
I program
additional time to be flown in a launch vehicle
6 the
modificationto
22 additional
at
engines
4 release NASA announced a change of the S-IB-202 and the S-IB-203 Uprated S-IB-202 was rescheduled to
sequence change was to provide for checkout of Apollo spacecraft the AS-202 mission. AS-203was
NASA
Center RL10
KSC
7. via
engineering,
(S-IB-3) The barge
and
departed
S-IB
stage
Promise
29I. 292. engines 293_
RLIO engine Final check before Barge
of
shipn_ent Promise
292
supply
Michoud for
where
AS-203 it was
291
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on April
12.
Sixdays later workmen erected the S-IB stage on Launch Complex 37B. Meanwhile, MSFC loaded the S-IB instrument unit for AS-203 aboard the Super Guppy for flight continued for erecting continued 294
St;per
Guppy
295.
S-IVB
stage
hydrogen tanks
296,
S-IVB Stand
,'_tage in Test Beta 1_ SACTO
From visited vehicles
propellant
April
to KSC. AS-203, tests
19 to April
of the 21 nine
MSFC for briefings to be used in the
missions. Briefing ware descriptions,
As preparations KSC technicians nearby
AS-202.
NASA astronauts
on the S-IB-1 initial manned
launch Apollo
areas included tours, and design philosophy.
hard_6
295
MSFC
announced
60-day
Douglas
Aircraft
Company,
design Saturn
l
that
NASA
had
contracts
to
McDonnell
Aircraft Engineering preliminary
studies and evaluate a plan to make spent V S-IVB stage hydrogen tanks habitable
for manned space missions tion. MSFC would manage
stage
21
fixed-price
and Grumman Aircraft to perform definition and
On April 23 workmen fired for 15 seconds
!
April
$50,000
Corporation, Corporation
296
on
awarded
all-systems
up to 30 days the contracts.
at MT F successfully S-II-T, the Saturn test
vehicle.
This
in dura2_ captiveV second was
the
first test of a flight-weight S- II stage. The stage, largest and most powerful liquid oxygen-liquid hydrogen
stage
known,
developed
one
million 139
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 297
297. S-II-T static MTF
firing at
298° First duration firing of an S-II flight stage 299, Saturn V in moven_ent at KSC pounds of thrust test also marked MSFC J-2
from its five J-2 engines. This the first operational use of MTF.
announced rocket
engine
Rocketdyne. increased 230,000 of the
on
May had
Inuprating
6 that
the
first
298
uprated
arrived
at
the J-2,
Rocketdyne
MSFC
from had
the thrust for a new thrust capability of pounds. NASA schedules called for use
higher
thrust
J-2
in the
S-IB, beginning with vehicle second and third stages of the with vehicle AS-504.298
second
stage
of the
AS-208 and, in the Saturn V, beginning 299
Technicians
at SACTO
pleted the S-IVB-501 on May 9.299 Helium-bottle termination
Test Stand Beta 1 com-
integrated systems
trouble on of the second
May 10 resulted in S-II-T firing at MTF.
The following
day,
a static firing 47 seconds.
of She S-II-T, the Premature cutoff
of a gas
generator
A 154-second systems occurred ful
test
of the
oxygen
engine. and
firing
of Saturn on May 17. nation's
most
Technicians
gimballed
These engines control of the
attempt
to complete
engine fired about occurred because
problem. static
version at MTF
ments
140
in a second
checkout
four
in flight would stage. 300
of
S-II-T,
V's This
powerful made of the provide
the
all-
second stage, was a successhydrogen-
1100 measurefive
engines.
stability
and
I
!
MA Y 1966 OnMay clature
19 MSFC announced the changes as recommended
quarters and Mr.
Officials, Scheer:
"Lunar
Excursion
Module;
the
Saturn 'the
Dr.
I.' Uprated
Seamans,
Dr.
to
called
Module
Saturn At
the
Saturn,
changes the
dropping reference name becomes more
to the familiar.
us
string
the
Realistically anyway; referring
be
Mueller,
Lunar
IB to become"the
first
to continue
following nomenby NASA Head-
Uprated
will be noted
Saturn
IB'
gradually
Saturn IB as the new This would enable of Saturn
the Uprated
Saturn
I successes.
I is what
we have
in general public releases we should to Saturn stages simply as the
second, or semi-technical
as
third stages, and, where press and in press kits
begin first,
helpful, to follow with
the technical nomenclature, i.e., 'the third stage of the Saturn V (S-IVB) ,' etc. ; future releases and announcement should make use of the new nomenclature.
"
The first
full-duration
occurred for 354.5
May 20 seconds.
cutoff test
firing
The firing
passed
all major
exception
of the
with the
propellant
This was the fourth The stage developed
static one
of thrust from its five hydrogenJ-2 engines. 301
"Rollout"oftheSA-500Foccurred The
stage
test-fired initiated
utilization system. firing of the S-II-T. million pounds oxygen-powered
flight
S-II-T sensors
automatically. objectives
of the S-II
at MTF when LOX cutoff
500,000-pound
at KSC May
facility
long, moved from the (VAB) on its 3000-ton
test
vehicle,
Vehicle Assembly diesel-powered
crawler facilities,
transporter to Pad train launch crews,
checkout
procedures.
365
25. feet
Building steel-link
A to verify launch and develop test
Also on May 25 technicians
at MTF attempted the second of the S-II-T but terminated seconds as a result of fire The fire burned an electrical
full-duration firing the firing after 198 on engine No. 5. cable to cause the
cutoff. S-II-T.
static
This 302
was
the
fifth
firing
of the
141
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 300
300 S-IVB-._02 firJrJg at SACTO
On May 26 at Sacramento was This
Beta
a second successful firing test of S-IVB-501 consisted
mainstage
first
burn,
a
orbital coast period, and burn after restart. 303 NASA firms
announced on for negotiations
contracts periments
A static May nicians juries.
test
version
ruptured 28,
and
mainstage
selection one-year
Apollo of each
of two stud)* and exvehicles Applicacontract
$1 million. of the
during five
Saturn
pressure
North
American
V second tests
stage
at MTF
Aviation
on
tech-
monitoring the test received minor inThe accident occurred when the hydrogen
fuel tank of the one-million-pound failed under pressure. S-II-T, hydrogen-oxygen J-2 one million pounds
142
simulated
a :_01-second
May 27 the of parallel
there
of S-IVB-501. of a 151-secot_d
106-minute
involving manned Estimated value
approximately
S-II-T
stand
for integration of experiments support equipment in space
and spacecraft tions missions. was
1 test
thrust stage which had five
engines capable of generating of thrust, had been tested
_tc'c'ep_:_nce
MAY May 25 in ground firing 195 seconds whenahydrogen tomatic nicians 301, due
Destroyed S-II-T/D to overpressurized liquid hydrogen tank 302_ Loading sequence ol Super Guppy 303, Saturn V and mobile launcher on crawler emerging from VAB, KSC 301
::: ,% :,;
cutoff. At were trying
hydrogen leak. the explosion
stopped link leak
time of the to determine
firing caused
explosion, cause
1966 after au-
techfor the
No hydrogen was in the tank when occurred. Under the direction of
MSFC,
a Board
Debus,
Director
vened
but
- JUNE
of Inquiry
headed
of Kennedy
on the night
of May
by Dr.
Space
28.
Immediate
gation revealed that knowing that the liquid
the seoond shift hydrogen pressure
and switches
disconnected,
had been
to pressurize the tank. hydrogen vent valve was closed
the
facility
caused surized
the vehicle tank and burst. 304
H.
coninvesti-
crew, not sensors
had attempted
Believing that a liquid leaking, the technicians
by blocking
On May 30 the board two days of inquiry.
Kurt
Center,
valves.
This
to become
released The fuel
had
over-pres-
its findings after tank of the S-II
stage had been pressurized beyond design limits. There was a need for tighter controls over MTF test procedure. 302 On flew
June
1 the
aboard
Saturn
the
Super
V third Guppy
stage
(S-IVB-502)
aircraft
Huntington Beach to SACTO for static 33,000-pound stage, 59 feet long and diameter, this stage to arrive At
Redstone
was the second Saturn at the Douglas test site. Arsenal
fired the second S-IC SaturnV launch vehicle corded 1200 formance. 303
from
MSFC
the
testing. 21.5 feet
A in
V upper
successfully
static
stage (S-IC-2) of the flight for 126.3 seconds and re-
measurements The five F-1
of the engines,
stage's perfour of which
were gimballed during this June 7 test, 7.5 million pounds of thrust. 305
generated
Because Hurricane Alma approached Kennedy Space Center on June 8, it was necessary to interrupt the processing and test activities of SA500F and move the vehicle back to the VAB. The hurricane threat vehicle was again
passed, and two days back on Pad A. 306
later
the
143
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
On June
27 NASA
contract
with
velopment agreement.
announced
Douglas
fee
depending
upon
the
would
be
of its
Company
S-IVB revised
for
de-
stage to a CPIF contract, the
increased
attainment
schedule,
conversion
Aircraft
of the Saturn's Under the
company's cost,
CHRONOLOGY
of
or decreased the
incentive
and performance.
The
for
original
contract was a CPFF arrangement. Estimated cost of the total effort under both portions of the contract was about $700 millionplus fee. To date about $595 million had been funded. On
June
29
MSFC
captive
fired
both
Saturn I first stage and an F-1 engine Arsenal. At MSFC's East Test Area fired for a full booster (S-IB-6). for 35 seconds Area
MSFC
engine
an uprated at Redstone technicians
duration the sixth flight Saturn It had previously been tested on June 22. At the West Test
technicians
on a first
run
captive for
about
fired
the
F-1
40 seconds.
The
S-IB, powered by eight Rocketdyne H-1 engines, produced 1.6 million pounds of thrust. 3o7 Following
the
destruction
of S-II-T
at MTF, NASA extended gram until July of 1967.
30, NASA rescheduled
of the scheduled
launch
it for
cause
of electrical no earlier
June
29 because
July
inter-
Explorer. SA-203
problems, than
prothere
for the Apollo/ scheduled for
of a lunar-anchored
planetary monitoring platform June 29 NASA had rescheduled come
a test
the S-II battleship Also during June
were changes in the launch schedule Saturn 203 launch. Previously June
during
But by launch be-
so that
it would 304, showing
5.
ing
At
Kennedy
Space
Center
technicians
on July
2,
1966, erected and mated the AS-202 spacecraft. Three days later the twelfth Saturn vehicle, AS203, flew from KSC Launch Complex 37B. After one hour, 53 minutes, and 17 seconds of countdown holds,
the
vehicle
lifted
off
the
pad
to begin
the
second unmanned flight of the uprated Saturn The vehicle's second stage (S-IVB), instrument unit, 144
and nosecone,
weighing
58,500
pounds,
com-
I.
304
around
AS-203 shock nose
in wave cone
Hight, [orrn.
JUNE prised
the heaviest
orbit. Primary an engineering during
orbit.
MSFC
technicians
the S-IC test
Federal
program
would
placed
S-IC-T
Arsenal
for static firings, tests, 310
Electric
liability
the
at Redstone
announced
Telephone support
estimated for two
installed
stand
national technical award-fee
ever
in
308, 30s
plans called LOX loading
On July 8 NASA to
satellite
1966
mission of this July 5 flight was study of liquid hydrogen fuel be-
havior
Tentative fuel and
U. S.
- JULY
the
award
Corporation
on July
7.
including
(FEC)
of Inter-
and Telegraph Corporation of the Saturn launch vehicle at
contract
perform
in
of a contract
MSFC.
would
The
be
for
test
one
program
year
at an
a provision The FEC
analysis,
analysis, hardware and maintainability
for re-
cost-plus-
cost of $1.8 million, with additional one-year periods.
mode and effects failure analysis,
stage
failure
and
software in human
engineering analysis for MSFC's liability Assurance Laboratory. would be in Huntsville. 311
Quality and ReMost of the work
Acceptance firing at Sacramento,
stage July
captive
firing,
of the S-IVB-502 California, on conducted
by
occurred 28. The
Douglas
Aircraft
Company, prime contractor, simulated the operation of the propulsion system during the burn portion of the flight. The stage burned 150 seconds, shut down for one and one-half hour simulated
coast
period,
291 seconds.
and then reignited
Such performance
and operated
would
be required
inlunar missions. A J-2 hydrogen-oxygenengine made by Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation Company powered the stage. 3_2 NASA
Headquarters
engine program This contract duction
support
and
delivery
for
for the Apollo what had been
unconditionally
contract established effort of the program. two major
approved
NAS8-19 on the provision through 155 J-2
December engines
The contract J-2 contracts.
J-2
July 29. for pro1968, required combined 313Also on 145
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 305
@
, / 305_ Acceptance the S-IVB-502
July
29,
technicians
at
Seal
static tests of the S-II-3 at Santa Susana technicians mainstage
test
matic cutoff data revealed S-II-1,
of the S- II battleship
first
firing
flight
at MTF,
S-II left
contract uprated from
Space
value Saturn
a CPFF
to continue Chrysler's
Division
by $14 I first to a CPIF
through
Auto-
scheduled
Beach signing with
which
for
on July
31.
of a $339 Chrysler
increased
the
million and converted the stage production contract contract.
February
assumption
hydro-
number 5, but erroneously.
stage Seal
NASA announced on August 1 the million supplemental agreement Corporation's
made
stage.
initiated from engine that cutoff occurred
the
static
Beach
stage for SA-503. And conducted a 40-second
of
The
1969, design
contract,
would
involve
responsibility
and implementation reliability testing
of a total qualification and plan. Under tMs contract
managed assemble,
Chrysler 12 stages.
MSFC 146
by MSFC, and test
announced
on August5
would 314 the
manufacture,
award
of a
$23.4
at
firing Sacramento
of
JULY
1966
306
307
306.
S-II
facilities
at Seal Beach
307. Transler of the S-II-I from the Point Barrow to the Pearl River at Michoud en route to MTF lrom Seal Beach
..,"
147
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY
million modification to an existing contract with North American Aviation Space and Information Systems Division for and testing the Saturn stage.
The contract
engineering completed NASA
many way.
to change
date
of the
work
NASA came
prior
of which
the meet time
to shipment.
in a ceremony
9. On August lation of flight
included
from
August
August weather.
14,
as
after
low bay where diately. 3t5
already
August
Stage
scheduled, a
KSC
one-day the
receiving
stage
2 to
turnover
at Sacramento
arriving
to
on August
11 technicians completed vehicle instrumentation
12, At
were
the KSC required for closeout of all
purge operations. The stage then the Super Guppy aircraft and departed on
several
Sacramento-to-KSC
S-IVB-501
August 12. This would date and allow additional open
work in building vehicle's second
modification
changes, or under
decided
shipping
additional V launch
instaland tank
went aboard Sacramento at KSC on
delay
because
of
went
into the
VAB
inspection
began
imme-
308
148
308. General view o[ SoIVB501 aboard Super Guppy
JULY
-
AUGUST
1966
309
310
309_
Complex
34,
Launch KSC 310. Fourth Uprated Saturn I_ S-IB-4, in first stage of journey to KSC
NASA
announced
uling
of
the
from August operations liquid
20 to technicians
hydrogen
three
fuel
The
fuel
the
spacecraft
to flythe which for
onAugust
departed
fittings
in the
spacecraft supply
mission
flight.
with
capable and
fourth
scheduled
line
would during
Uprated to
two
from
KSC,
to module.
NASA
fuel
cells power
suborbital
flight.
Complex
I (S-IB-4), Apollo
to
decided
sufficient
on August
the
power
remaining
hour
a manned for
checkout leaks in
service
Launch
Saturn
launch
(AS-202)
leading
Later,
one-half
resched-
I
electrical
of providing
fly
Michoud
the
the
22. During discovered
had
fuel
AS-202 would KSC. 3_6
The
August
cells
one
1966, Saturn
cells
were the
10,
Apollo/Uprated
34
the
at
first
spacecraft, 10. 149
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
NASA
announced
begin
negotiations
and of
Douglas
CHRONOLOGY
on
August
with
Aircraft
the
Company
long-lead-time
items
for
Saturn I launch vehicles. time items was estimated million. The
first
vehicle's
flight
model
second
stage
completing
that
for procurement
moved
the
Seal stage
McDonnell
tions
of St.
toward
bX3million
selected
Louis,
Missouri,
a fixed-price
contract
to provide
an S-WB
airlock.
V
13 at MTF
from
On
19 NASA
Saturn
August
voyage
building firing.
August
Uprated
of the
S-II stage service and checkout tion and preparation for static
Corporation
would
Corporation
Cost of the long-leadat $5 million to $30
arrived
immediately
MSFC
additional
(S-II-1)
its 4000-mile
Workmen
11
Chrysler
Beach. into
the
for inspec-
for
Aircraft negotia-
estimated The
at air-
lock would permit astronauts access to the empty hydrogen tank of spent uprated Saturn I second stages. 311
l
150
311, S-II-1 arriving at ,gTF for acceptance testing
AUGUST
1966
312
312. 313.
IU-501 aboard AS-202
arrives at KSC Supper Guppy rises lrom KSC
on August
25,
1966
313
0
J
A LOX L!
line
leading
to the
Saturn
KSC ruptured on August 800,000 gallons of LOX. during
the
first-stage
V launch
19, spilling The incident
tanking
test
pad
at
more than occurred
when
the
pipe-
line ruptured spilling the vacuum created inside
800,000 gallons of LOX; the tank had caused a
depression
2. 5-inch-thickdome.
in
thetank's
The S-IU-501 Apollo/Saturn to fly
in the
Launch AS-202 to fly
arrived vehicle Uprated
3t7
at KSC on August 24. AS-202, the third vehicle Saturn
I series,
rose
from
Complex 34 at Cape Kennedy on August 25. was the thirteenth Saturn vehicle in a row successfully
through
space.
This
was
the
second successful flight test of the Apollo spacecraft command and service modules before earth orbital
manned
Apollo
command
subjecting
missions.
The
module
ablative
it to extended
high
flight
proved
heat heat
loads
shield
the by
during 151
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 314
314. KSC On August 26 MSFC flight booster (S-IC-1), early barge
shipped the scheduled
in 1967, to the Kennedy Poseidon.
first Saturn V to be launched
Space
Center
via the
NASA announced on August 28 that the August 19 rupture of the 900,000 gallon stainless steel storage tank for the Saturn V booster's LOX would delay first
the booster's quarter
first
of 1967,
MSFC announced
flight,
scheduled
by at least
on September
for the
45 days. 7 that
320
four
barges
carrying 400,000 gallons of vitally needed liquid oxygen were en route to KSC after being dispatched from 40,000 tank
the MTF. The shipment, together with gallons brought into KSC by truck and rail cars,
on August
would
replenish
19 when
a line
storage tank serving 39. Schedules called to resume September The
S-IC-1
the
liquid
ruptured
oxygen
below
the
lost LOX
Saturn V's Launch Complex for propellant loading tests 20, 1966.
arrived
at
KSC
on
September
11.
Chrysler personnel at the Test Laboratory in Huntsville captive fired the seventh Uprated Saturn I flight booster for its full two and one-half minute ful test, booster 152
test
on September
schedules to
Michoud
called for
13.
After
for MSFC post-static
this
success-
to return test
the
checks.
S-IC-I stage
arrival,
AUGUST Chrysler Orleans
Corporation facility. 321
Last
the
of
occurred The
at
built
S-IVB-503 day
the
checkout
Beach
at
at the
on
MSFC's
1966 New
tests
September
P&VE
14.
Laboratory
in Huntsville technicians completed all tions for the S-IU-200S/500S-3 structural
test conditest unit.
The final test condition for the unit was cation of a 140 percent maximum limit sion load on part of the unit. 322
the applicompres-
On September built
at MAF
Poseidon
for
23 the
first
(S-IC-3) MSFC
Saturn
departed
MSFC awarded
announced three
on new
$400,000
to investigate
and
methods
best
for
V flight aboard
to undergo
static
According to plans technicians fire the boosters at MTF. 323
315
stage
factory
Huntington
following
- OCTOBER
booster the
barge
firing
would
later
tests. static-
September 29 that it had study contracts totalling the
launch
sending
vehicle
manned
needs
spacecraft
on planetary flyby trips ; North American Aviation, Inc., received $100,000 to study feasibility of modifying the Saturn V second stage, S-II, for use as an orbital Company of using planetary ceived modes landing 315. $-IU-200S/500S during structural test, MSFC 316. S..IC-3 being loaded on barge Poseidon for shipment to MSFC
received
ejection
stage;
$100,000
Saturn V third stage, vehicle; and TRW
Douglas
to study
the
S-IVB, Systems,
Aircraft feasibility
as part Inc.,
of a re-
$200,000 for study of alternate mission for manned Mars and Venus orbital and missions.
3_4
316
153
SATURN After
ILLUSTRATED successful
checkout the and
CHRONOLOGY
completion
at the Michoud
S-IC-3 arrived
stage left at MSFC
of post-manufacturing
Booster
Checkout
Michoud on on October
Facility,
September 23 1. Unloading
operations began on October 3, and on that same date workmen erected the stage in the test stand. 32s The
S-IVB-503
Sacramento
stage
via the
went
Super
from
Los
Guppy
Alamitos
aircraft
to
on Octo-
ber 11. The stage moved to the Vertical Checkout Laboratory on October 12, and into the test stand on October 14. The SA-500F vehicle arrived at KSC on October 15. On October test
17 MSFC
booster
shipped
, S-IC-T,
of a static
test
its
to MTF
stand
and
for
S-IC
all-system
for use use
in checkout
in static
firings.
Workmen loaded the huge booster aboard the barge Poseidon for the 1000-mile river journey. Six days later the S-IC-T reached MTF. Meanwhile onOctober
25,
lier,
eighth
the
after
leaving
Michoud
Uprated
stage
(S-IB-8) reached the MSFC dock for static at MSFC by Chrysler Corporation personnel.
firing Also
25, NASA awarded
sity of Wisconsin a $679,101 sensors for a galactic X-ray to be flown
I
ear-
first
at MSFC on October
Saturn
a week
on an Uprated
the
contract mapping
Saturn
Univer-
to develop experiment
I launch
vehicle
in 1968. The sensors would explore X-ray other than the sun and Crab Nebula.
sources
NASA announced
to North
American plement
on October
Aviation for
26 the
award
of a $37 million
launch
preparation
contract and
sup-
checkout
of
ten SaturnV second stages (S-II). Two days later NASA awarded a $4.5 million contract modification
calling
design
tain structural SaturnV first ponents, included i zation On 154
for
the
Boeing
and procurement components stages built
previously
Company
for
cer-
and instrumentation of at Michoud. The com-
provided
by the
propellant ducts and valves switches and gauges. 326
November
to assume
responsiblities
2 KSC workmen
Government, and
stacked
pressur-
the
S-IU-
317. S-IC-3 being erected in the static test stand a_ MSFC 317
OCTOBER 318
501.
The ber
The followingdaytechnicians systems
checkout
S-II-F/D 10.
Technicians fired the onds
stage
at S-IC-3
S-IC
arrived
Saturn cause
320,
S°IC
test
stand
at MTF
last
Future
B-2 stand technicians
Uprated
on Novem-
plam_ed
firing
firings
would
at MTF. 328 On sucessfully
Saturn
17 NASA announced
I booster
several
Apollo/
The principal manned earth
a
change orbital
called for mission,
Apollo/Saturn 205, which was to have the first manned Apollo flight, AS-204.330 On November 18 NASA approved tract NASS-18734 CPIF. This for
30 F-1
engines
needed
and continued production June 1970. These 30 F-1 by Rocketdyne would
complete
quiredbythe spares.
for
manned space flight schedule changes beof launch vehicle and spacecraft develop-
ment problems. rescheduling
up fixture as a spacer to replace the S-H-I at KSC 319. S-II-F stage being unloaded at MSFC
the
at MSFC.
the eighth 329
On November
at MSFC
Thiswas
stage
static fired 35 seconds.
com-
S-IU-502.3_7
MSFC successfully acceptanceon November ]5 for 121.7 sec-
mainstage.
of the
at MSFC
of the
be accomplished at the November 16 at MSFC
318. Buildup of the SA-501 vehicle using the H7-17 lit-
1966
319
pleted
320
- NOVEMBER
Division the
The
cost
F-] engine concontract provided
in the support rocket
number would
Apollo
program
and GSE through engines furnished
of North
15scheduled
followed
American
of engines
Aviation
Saturn be
(106)
V vehicles,
about
$141
replus
million. 155
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
The delivery ber, 1967, On
CHRONOLOGY
of 30 engines and continue
November
would through
29 a forward
hydrogen tank for the damage while the stage
begin in NovemOctober 1968. 331
bulkhead
of the
S-II-3 flight stage suffered was in the horizontal posi-
tion. The damage occurred at North Aviation's Seal Beach Plant as workmen moving a work The stage was
ladder from the in position when
of the ladder dropped, striking head and causing cracks. The a weld failure
in the
NASA anticipated date. 332 Technicians the
eighth
in its secondtest
no impact
on the
Saturn
conducted
a successful
of the first
flight
S-II-3
The
first 1.6
American
drop,
of engines recording
resulting 1 and of about
in the
firing devel-
During arms did gimballing
3 only. The test included the 800 measurements of the stage' s 322
156
321
Aviation
engines,
successful
stage million
capt£ve
opinga totalone million pounds of thrust. the test, number 2 and 4 engine SLAM not
fired
successfully
384-second
hydrogen-fueled
delivery
30 static
developing
1 North
bulkfrom
mechanism.
I booster
for 145 seconds.
on December
forward resulted
on November
performed as expected, pounds of thrust. 333 At MTF
the fall
retracting
Uprated
American were re-
tankage interior. a 10-foot section
ladder
at MSFC
liquid
321. F-I engine checkout 322. Cracks in the liquid hydrogen tank._ {or the S-11.3
NOVEMBER 323
performance, tures, engine and vibrations. Workmen SA-500D
including temperatures, 334
- DECEMBER
1966
propellant tank temperapropellant flow rates,
at MSFC completed vehicle on December
stacking
of
the
3.
,t
Factory checkout ended on December
of the S-IVB-504 9 at Huntington
flight Beach.
stage
On December 13 a two-stage Uprated Saturn I launch vehicle was shipped to KSC. NASA would launch the vehicle in 1967 in an unmanned flight 323_ Dynamic vehicle stacked in the Saturn V Dynamic Test Tower at MSFC
of
the
Apollo
spacecraft
lunar
module.
The
booster stage, S-IB-6, for the AS-206 left Michoud near New Orleans on this date aboard the barge Palaemon. to KSC
on
S-IVB-6, at
The Palaemonwould December 19.
went
aboard
Air
Force
Mather
deliver second
The
the
Super
Base.
its
Guppy
Douglas
cargo stage,
aircraft built
S-IVB stage, at Huntington Beach, California, testedit at SACTO. Schedules called for the cle's
instrument
MSFC An
unit
to KSC aboard
all-systems
to fly on December the
test
Super
version
Guppy.
the and vehi-
19 from 335
of Apollo/Saturn
V
first stage, S-IC-T, went into the B-2 test at the Mississippi Test Facility on December
stand 17.
Stage electrical test standbegan
and mechanical hook-up immediately. Static firing
occur
1967
in early
checkout
announced million
Corporation time stages pleted
contract to begin
by June
four
Chrysler ble and stages
on December
30,
procurement
was test
1967,
components, to maintain
Uprated
Saturn
Uprated agreement Chrysler
facility
award to
of a
Chrysler
of long-leadSaturn first to be comwould
procure
and engineering supits capability to assemI boosters
currently under 12 of the 1.6
at Michoud.
20 the
modification
items for additional (S-IB). Under this
the materials, port necessary ble
the
system.
MSFC $7.2
to demonstrate
to the would
per
year.
contract to assemmillion-pound first
33_ 157
SATURN MSFC
ILLUSTRATED announced
on December
sigr, ed a $6,383,720 the missile and Space Aircraft
CHRONOLOGY 28 that
contract Systems
Company
for
NASA had
modification with Division of Douglas
long-lead-time
the upl_r stages of Uprated The contract, to be managed
items
for
Saturn I vehicles. by MSFC, was ex-
tended through June 1967. The object of the procurement action was to maintain the option of ordering SaturnI
additionalS-IVB stages for the in the future, without sufferinga
certain
areas
wheze
for
material
required
considerable acquisition
Uprated delay in
time
might
and/or
be
manu-
facturing. OnDecember MTF test
30, 1966, MSFC technicians stand conducted a static firing
first flight version of the Saturn S-II-1. This second test firing, firing, cedure
lasted called
at the of the
V second stage, like an earlier
more than six minutes. Normal profor the stage to undergo post-static
firing inspection or checkout next at the test site before being moved to KSC, but in a change of procedure MSFC began preparations at once to ship the officials
stage to KSC for these checks. hopedto gain seven or eight days
forming much of the work at KSC. 338 On January Task Teamto California a team technical
pacing
MSFC
this
technical could
Sam Yarchin, 18-man team. S-IU-503
on January
10. 34°
On January S-II-1 stage
element
gave
IBM began
t58
modification
an S-II contractor
Special site in
and at MTF. The organization of such became necessary when emergence of difficulties resulted in the S-I/ stage
solving S-II commitments Col. this
and
5 MSFC established be locatedat the
becomingthe ment.
checkout
Project by per-
in Saturn
team
V develop-
priority
to assure
problems so that schedule be met. The Center named
S-I/ 339
Stage
checkout
Manager,
and systems
1t initial post-static ended at MTF. a41
checkout
to head
324. S-IU-503 during stallation of retro-[it to umbilical quick connect mechanism, facility, Huntsville
324
testing
of the
rr
inkit disIBM
DECEMBER
1966
A successful S-IVB-208 occurred at Sacramento
JANUARY
1967
stage acceptance on January 12.
firing Main-
stage duration was 424.3 seconds, with automatic cutoff initiated because of LOX depletion. Alltest objectives were achieved. 342 The first
flight
version
of a rocket
stage
to under-
go captive firings at MTF, the S-II-l stage, left Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on January 16 en route to KSC, where it would become a part of the first Apollo/Saturn V flight vehicle, scheduled for launch during the second this same date, MSFC
quarter announced
Sanders
of a $2,.149,
for
Associates,
logistic
support
play systems hicle status preparations 325. S-IB-7, S-IB-9, $-IB-5, and S-IB-6 in [inal
assembly
area, Michoud
On January cility trip
of Saturn
used to present during simulated .344 19 the S-IB-9
at MAF to MSFC
Inc.
aboard
the
in Huntsville
of 1967. 343 On the award to 548contract
V operational information and actual
stage
left
Palaemon for
static
the
dison velaunch
CCSD
barge testing.
fa-
on its 345
325
t59
SATURN A
ILLUSTRATED
Saturn
V third
shortly
before
January pletely
20 test destroyed
CHRONOLOGY
stage,
it was
S-IVB-503,
scheduled
to be ignited
at SACTO. The the stage at Test
326
exploded in a
explosion comStand Beta III.
Post-accident investigation revealed that one of the eight ambient temperature helium storage spheres located on the engine thrust exploded because of weld weakness from use of the wrong weld material.
structure resulting _6 327
At MSFC's
ME Lab,
technicians
vice to adapt the S-IC Test other thantheS-IC. This
completed
ring consisted of approximately 90,000 welded stainless steel approximately diameter and 6 feet in height. The S-II-1 stage arrived January 21. Already at flight vehicle S-IU-501. _? S-II-1
stage
sections Noteworthy was
that
a de-
Stand to receive S-IC test stand
stages adapter pounds 33 feet
of in
on the dock at KSC on KSC were the SA-501
S-IC-1, about
S-IVB-501, the arrival
it arrived
and of the
at KSC without
having undergone final post-static checkout and modification at MTF, thus eliminating duplicate checkout bythis
at MTF actionto
andKSC. save
NASA
NASA
officials
sevento
eight
the Apollo Saturn 501 launch schedule in the VAB. _8 160
vehicle
hoped days erection
in
326. Saturn V third stage iS-IVB) 327. AS-503 third stage IS-IVB) explosion 328. S-If at KSC
328
stage
arrival
JANUARY 329. Saturn V first stage (S-IC), Boeing Co., prime contractor 330. Overall view of SIVB fuel tank relief valve undergoing test at General Dynamics (subcontractor for Douglas) in San Diego 331. Assembly Huntington Beach, ifornia. S-IVB-507 S-IVB-506 middle, S-IVB-212
area, Calleft, and right
MSFC Bell
awarded
a $I00,000
Aerosystems
flight
testing
vehicle
at
gravity
test
six-month
Company Bell's
"pogo
Langley
on stick"
Research
facility.
The
uated for possible mission. _8
use
1967
contract
January
20
one-man
Center's vehicle
for
flying (LaRC's)
would
in an Apollo
to
lunar
be
eval-
surface
329
332. S-IVB-505 and S-IVB-211 in vertical checkout tower at Huntington Beach
330
331
332
/
Following testing
the on
identification
loss
of the
January numbers
20,
S-IVB-503 NASA
stage
officials
of subsequent
S-IVB
during amended stages
t61
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY
to fill the vacancy created. The S-IVB-504 became the S-IVB-503N, S-IVB-505 became S-IVB504N,
and
S-IVB-506
became
S-IVB-505N.
A
replacement stage using an old S-IVB-507 tankage became S-IVB-506, and S-IVB-507 and subsequent stages retained the old identification. 35° ( The N atthe for
the
end of the stage
word
necessary
"New,"
after
necessitating
A board
a designation
an earlier the
identification
use
stage
that
version
of a substitute
to investigate
the
stands became exploded,
stage.
destruction
)
of S-IVB-
503 was organized at the Sacramento Test Center on January 23. Board members included Dr. Kurt Debus,
Chairman;
Karl
Heimburg,
MSFC
Test
Laboratory Director ; and T. J. Gordon, Douglas Aircraft representative. On this same date KSC technicians erected the S-IVB-206 stage atop the S-IB-6 out
stage
began
on LC-37.
promptly
the first integrated 206 vehicle. 351
The S-IVB-503N stroyed DAC's
Stage
tests
stage,
S-IVB-503, Space Systems
proximately one cause of engine aircraft. 352
shipment date, as
of the
week later difficulties
Uprated
for Saturn
for the
at SACTO on January
de-
from 25, ap-
than scheduled bein the Super Guppy
I booster at MSFC
to be assemon January 26
333
Palaemon. After captive firing would, according to schedule, for post-firing checkout before
to the KSC launch site. On this same part of the post-static checkout, work-
men completed
liquid
theS-II-i
positioned
stage
hydrogen
tank
in the VAB
inspection at KSC.
Huntington Beach, workmen completed checkout of S-IVB-209 and readied the airlift to SACTO. 353 f62
check-
prepared
a replacement arrived Center
The ninth Uprated Saturn bled at Michoud arrived aboard the barge at MSFC, S-IB-9 return to Michoud
subsystem
as technicians
of At
factory stage for
333. Michoud, aerial view with plant in background
JANUARY The
three-man
Apollo
space
stantly,
flight
when
Apollo 204
crew
was
ing the mission.
JPL
the major
issued
to
industry
studies
capsule.
Two
launched in
pose of the mission scientific studies terrestrial
life.
Also
on
Beach, 16
January
and
days,
static
tests.
workmen 503N
stage
on to the
S-II At
MTF.
for
design
and
landing
SACTO
in
proposals.
to conduct for extraproposals,
S-H-2
pass
would
stage
through its
arrive on I Test
1973 Pur-
contractors
installation Beta
would
V booster
After
would
completed on the
the
to
21
request
industrial
to four
27
California,
Canal
27
to Mars would be of Mars and search
two
S.
dur-
February
Voyager
the
the
U.
spacecraft
Saturn
From
due in March, chosen.a_ 334
the
preliminary
to
B.
LC-34
Voyager
a single
I.
Roger of the
of an unmanned
according
Saturn
history
a January
identical
by
1975,
and
for
for
their
Virgil
at KSC's
rehearsal
in-
swept
Uprated
II,
in the
on contracts
definition
27 killing
White
worst
manned
apparently
to the
It occurred
first
proposals
died,
accident, H.
program.
first
on January
mated
This Edward
Chaffee,
and
fire
I spacecraft
space
NASA's
(AS-204)
flash
vehicle.
Grissom,
be
for
1967
the
left
be
Seal
Panama
journey
lasting
at
for
this
MTF historic
of
the
two date,
S-IVB-
Stand.
335 334. Route used to transport the S-II stage [rom Seal Beach complex to the Seal Beach dock 335. S-II Facilities,
Seal Beach looking east
163
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 336
336. stage
,Lm,
¸ ,:_
B
SATURN V/S IC-1' SIAGE TEST PROGRAM
In the first statement concerning Apollo flight missions since the AS-204 accident, NASA Associate
Administrator
for
Manned
Space
Flight,
Dr. George E. Mueller, announced on February 3 that NASA would proceed with launching of three unmanned Apollo flights scheduled for 1967: 206, AS-501, and AS-502. NASA meanwhile postponing pending Board's
indefinitely the outcome investigation.
Also on February tract modification
manned of the 3_
Apollo
Review
first stages. As a result Boeing was now under conand assemble _5 of the 7.5
million-pound-thrust
boosters,
thereby
com-
stage requirements for the prescheduled launching of 15 Sat-
urn V space vehicles in the Apollo landing program. The $120 million
164
204
missions
3 NASA signed an incentive conwith the Boeing Company for
five additionalSaturnV of this modification, tract to fabricate pleting the S-IC viouslyannounced
Apollo
ASwas
manned lunar supplemental
agreement contract increased
awarded by MSFC extended the Boeing through June 1970. This modification the total estimated value of the Boeing
contract
to $977
million.
35_
Saturn test
V/S-IC-T
program
FEBRUARY
1967
337
337. Saturn V first stage (S-It) 338.
Saturn V vehicle configuration 338
m
1
i
r
!
i-a -!
1
+.
.._
i
:
i,,e,.t
L_
!
$.1(,.i
y'
The
.
S-II-2
_
.
stage
arrived
on
dock
at MTF
February 11. The S-II-2 stage, part of the ond Saturn V vehicle (SA-502) scheduled launch from KSC late in 1967, was scheduled testing
at MTF
late
in March.
Corps of Engineers struction of the S-IC
personnel B-2 Test
On
first
February
17 the
cluster of uprated Test No. 041, lasted
Two
secfor for later,
completed conStand at MTF. 357
full-duration
J-2 engines, 360 seconds.
days
on
test
of a
S-II Battleship On this same i65
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY
date requalification of the SA-204
vehicle fol-
lowing de-erection of the Apollo spacecraft consisted of two tests, the Launch
Vehicle
(LV)
Emergency Detection System test and the LV Systems Plugs-ln test; both were accomplished successfully with no problems. At Huntington Beach three days later, after completion of J-2 engine installation,the stage checkout of S-IVB505 began. The next day, February IVB-502 leftSACTO for KSC. 358
21, the S339. Saturn 339
V instrument
unit
340. Saturn V specifications
Erection February
of the AS-501 stages 23 and was completed
at KSC began on with the stacking
of the IU on February 25. Schedules the launch vehicle "power on" to begin late r. 359
called for three days
On February 25 workmen at I_IT F completed construction of the S-II A-1 Test Stand, and the Corps of Engineers cy with exceptions
accepted .36o
beneficial
occupan-
I_ISFC personnel static fired the Uprated Saturn first stage S-IB-9 at Huntsville for approximately 35 seconds on February fired for 13.5 seconds
340
I
27. It had been staticon February 24. 361 :i
On February 27 the S-If stage prime contractor, NAA, gained beneficial occupancy of three newly 166
I !
FEBRUARY constructed
buildings
at
the
-
MARCH
contractor's
1967 Seal
Beach Complex. These buildings were the Station I Subassembly Building, the Multi-purpose Building 81, and the Warehouse and Maintenance Building
86.
construction
of
an eight-storyAdministrative Office Building 80 was progressing on schedule. 362
No.
Following total
Meanwhile,
an extensive
integrated
overall
systems,
systems
subsystems,
checkout
and
of the B-2
Test
Stand fired IC-T)
at MTF on March 3, workmen successfully the S-IC Battleship/All Systems state (Sfor 15 seconds. This S-IC-T test, the first
MTF
S-IC
firing,
proved
of stage, mechanical test facilities. 363
support
the
total
compatibility
equipment,
and
S-IC
341
341..1-2 at Vertical One,
Santa
injector Test
tests Stand
Susana Field Laboratory
342. S-IVB-206 on transporter in VAB, Sacramento 342
The
second
Saturn
V launch
vehicle
flight
boost-
er, S-IC-2, left MSFC for KSC by barge on March 3. This was the start of a month of travel in the
Saturn
gram's
far-flung
program, activities.
exemplifying Included
the in
prothe 167
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
March urn
travel
inthe
boosters
barges sissippi barges
CHRONOLOGY Saturn
riding
program
side
by
were side
two Sat-
on separate
from New Orleans en route up the MisRiver to MSFC. On one of the dual rode the Saturn V test stage, S-IC-T, af-
ter its successful 15-second firing onthis March 3 date. The other barge brought the tenth Uprated Saturn booster, S-IB-10, from Michoud to MSFC for
static
sixth
tests.
Uprated
preparing sites for
And
at
Saturn,
KSC
SA-206,
the
stages
were
of the
leaving
or
to leave LC-37 for return to various storage. The S-IB-9 stage was leaving
MSFC by (S-IVB-206) two weeks
barge. The second stage for 8A-206 would make better trip time, leaving later aboard the Super Guppy aircraft
from KSC to Huntington Beach for storage at the DAC plant. Also in March the instrument unit for SA-206 ville came
left byaircraft
for storage. These because SA-206 was
unmanned
lunar
but subsequent for that mission. age
for the IBM plant
for
use
module scheduling SA-206
in a subsequent
various to have
on
its
in Huntsmovements launched an
first
space
redesignated would remain mission.
test,
SA-204 in stor-
_s4 343
343. 5-IC-3 parts inside Point Barrow i68
MARCH On March System
7, an erroneous
cutoff
Beckman
at 3. 080 seconds
Digital
ended
nicians ( 145.4
at MSFC seconds)
atAptech-
fired the stage for long duration achieving all test objectives.36s
Duringthe first week an incentive contract for Saturn tion (SE&I)
Data
the first
tempt to fire S-IB-9 in a long-duration test. proximately 2 1//2 hours later, however,
1967
in March, NASA also signed with the Boeing Company
V Systems requirements
Engineering and Integraas Schedule II, NAS8-
5608, for target costs and target fees of $720.4 million. This requirement extended theSE&I effort
through
On March ington firing
December 9 DAC
Beach
1968.
airlifted
S-IVB-209
to SACTO
to
from
undergo
Hunt-
acceptance
.366
SA-500D Configuration I testing ended March 11 with a specialtest to verify the flight control system. roll
The Configuration testing completed
completed February February After
January
I test January 23,
yaw
15, and longitudinal 26.36 T MSFC
completed
the
program included 16, pitch testing testing
completed
testing
completed
series
of acceptance
test firings ofS-IB-9 at Huntsvi lle , the stage left Huntsville by barge on March 14. During this same week, the S-IC-2 stage arrived by barge at KSC. Also during this week scientists at Arnold Engineering Development Center homa, Tennessee, started and rocket
engine
in simulated
nificant accomplishment readiness for restart tests duplicated the other earth.
( A EDC), restarted
altitude
tests,
performance
for
the
A second S-IC-T firing lasted for March 17. This firing validated bucket-water-flow
a sig-
in improving the engine's missions in space. Such extreme temperatures and
environmental factors of 100,000 Earlier tests atTullahoma had
the J-2 engine urn I vehicle._8
T ulla .a J-2
pattern
of the
feet above confirmed
Uprated
Sat-
60 seconds on the flameB-2
Test
Stand 169
SATURN and
ILLUSTRATED ended
the
NITF. 369 Also
CHRONOLOGY
facilities
checkout
on March
17 technicians
S-II battleship stage 29 seconds. 37°
test
for a mainstage
series
at
fired
the
duration
of
During the third week in March, two major pieces of Saturn hardware were intransit. On March 18 the
S-IB-9
stage
arrived
at MAF
from
modification.
MSFC
undergo
post-static
portation cessfully
personnel at Redstone Airport loaded S-IU-502 into the Super
aircraft on March 20 because of high winds. cargo to KSC. 3Tt Also 204
on March booster
unmanned the last
to
mentation.
after a delay The aircraft
20 NASA launch
flight booster
the
plans
206 booster. Purpose would be to obtain data pulsion structure;
scheduled first
use
20 MSFC
AS-
L_'I on an
of 1967. It was full R&D instru-
had beento
use
of the first on ascent and
announced
sucGuppy
of the
the AS-
LM mission descent pro-
systems, including a restart; and evaluate staging. 372
On March
to
trans-
of four days carried its
Apollo
in the summer equipped with
Original
And
verify
assignment
LM
of Karl
Heimburg, Director, Test Division, as Acting Director of Test and Evaluation at MTF for an indefinite
period.
would be the meat for test
Inthis
assignment
Mr.
Heimburg
principal member of MTF manageplans and procedures, for operation
of test
facilities,
for
cess, carried
and for NASA out by the
overalltest direction on-site
safety
and
suc-
of test programs contractors. This
assignment was not construed as a change in current assignments or the organization structure at MTF even personnel
though Mr. and a small
own selection ing him. 373
from
Also on March
20 MSFC
tion
a $7.4million
for development ing 170
control
Heimburg would have MTF augmentation group of his
the MSFC
awarded
Laboratory
Bendix
cost-plus-award-fee and production
system
(PCS).
assist-
Corporacontract
of the AT M pointBy
this
contract
MARCH Bendix ATM
would
produce
three
would
permit
system
units
byAugust.
Apollo
in late
1968.
American
pany, under a $740,460 dynamic simulator for PCS. 374 Boeing Stand static
personnel
facilities shipment On this
modification. of the stage same
von Braun, James,
date
announced
Manager
serve as NASA's Apollo Program, Dr. von Braun William erations, F.
agement, as I/IB Program.
began
for
375 Dr.
selection
Saturn
postand
I/IB
Wernher of Lee
B.
Program,
to
Deputy Program Director of the Office of Manned Space Flight. also announced appointment of
Manager,
LaHatte,
Test
24, following refurbishment,
Director,
NASA's
of the
Teir, Deputy to replace
Program
from
Preparation to Huntsville.
MSFC
Com-
would build a developing the
the S-IC-T
B-2 at MTF on March checkout, test stand
to
of the sun activities
Optical
contract, use in
removed
The
astronauts
point a telescope to selected regions during a period of maximum solar flare beginning
1967
Deputy
Manager, Mr. James
Saturn I/IB as Saturn
OpI/IB
and appointment
of William
Manager,
I/IB
the new 376
Deputy
Saturn Manager,
ManSaturn
344
344. Saturn IB second stage/Saturn V third stage (S-IVB), McDonnell Douglas Co., prime contractor
171
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 345
On
March
31,
failure
of
caused program officials first attempt to static fire this
same
date
its destination River. After transferred Poseidon a.
for
theS-IC-T at MAF its arrival
the stage shipment
a
prevalve
at MTF the S-II-2 traveled
to
close
346
to scrub the stage. 3T7 On from
MTF
to
aboard the barge Pearl at Michoud, dockhands aboard the covered barge to MSFC in Huntsville. 3_8 b.
347
345. Michoud, aerial view of engineering building and manufacturing area 346. Saturn V second stage (S-If), North American-Rockwell, pritne contractor 347a. Testing of S-II Battleship test stage b. test results of S-II Battleship test stage
172
MARCH Battleship
testing
of the'S-II
-
APRIL
Battleship
test
19 67
stage
equipped with five uprated J-2 engines ended with Test 043, a full-duration test of approximately 360 seconds mainstage operation, a?s 348. S-IC-8, S-IC-4, and S-IC-6 in manufacturing building, Michoud 349. S-IC test stand at MTF
In March III Test
NASA Stand
gave approval to rebuild at SACTO, which was
damaged January ploded .380 On for
20
when
the
the Beta severely
S-IVB-503
April 1, the S-IB-10 stage departed MSFC onboard the barge Palaemon.
ex-
Michoud 381
348 The S-IB-6 the Promise
stage departedKSC en route to Michoud
onApril 3 aboard for storage. Al-
so on April 3 the Apollo Boilerplate ice and command modules arrived
, ii, L-
349
they load
would be modified for for AS-501 and AS-502
The
S-IC-4
aboard
the
stage barge
Boeing personnel placed IC static test stand. 383
MTF personnel, ful 368-second this
same
servwhere
use as a backup missions. 382
arrived Pearl
(BP-30) at MSFC
at
River. the
MTF The
stage
on
pay-
April
following
4 day
in the MT F S-
onApril 6, conducteda successfiring of the S-II-2 stage. 384 At
time
Apollo Apollo
and AA missions
in the
order
NASA
revised
designations
for
missions as follows: (1) All would be numbered sequentially
flown,
with
the
next
Apollo
mission
to be designated Apollo 4, followed by Apollo 5, etc. ; (2) AA missions would be designated sequentially asAAP-1, AAP-2, etc. Number designations would not differentiate between and unmanned UpratedSaturn I andSaturn s ions. a85
manned V mis-
The S-IB-6 stage arrived at MAF from KSC on April 7 for storage pending rescheduling of Uprated Saturn I flights. 38_ Two days later the SIB-10 April
stage, shipped by 1, arrived at MSFC's
barge from MAF on Huntsville dock.aa7 173
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 350
And
again
on April
left Michoud aboard 1 arrived at MSFC _{E Laboratory velopment
The
On
to await use in research
Saturn
Also
de-erected
vehicle,
of the was
15,
fired
technicians
the
second
V space
vehicle.
cost-plus-incentive extensions
KSC
to on
successfully (S-II-2)
award
award-fee
totaling more
of the
than
of one-
(CPIF)
con-
$57 million
fabrication, and institutional for the Saturn launch vehicle
Recipients:
$12,695,727;
mission
from
MTF stage
completed
tract
for engineering, support services
LC-37
390
year,
174
and de-
aircraft toSACTO
at flight
on April 15 MSFC
program.
which
from
LM-I
shipped
13 via the Super Guppy it would be stored. 389
April
static
stage,
reassignment
the AS-204 April where
stage
tests. 388
S-IVB-206
following
9, the S-IC-T
the Poseidon barge on April where it was stored in the
Vitro
SperryRand Corporation,
Corporation, $5,344, 159;
350. S-IC Huntsville
[light
stage,
APRIL Brown
Engineering
Spaco,
Company,
Incorporated,
$12,350,140;
$5,971,638;
Northrop
$3, 905,000;
poration, corporated,
$4,969, 277; Management Services In$5,560,941; Rust Engineering Com-
On
$599,090; 907. 391
April
19,
completion seconds.
and
a J-2
International
Cor-
poration,
pany, $5,749,
Hayes
RCA
engine
Service
set
of 103 tests lasting This length of testing
for any other
large
rocket
engine
1967
Cor-
Company,
a record
with the
a total of 20,094 was longer than produced
by the
Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation, Inc. This record-breaking series of tests was conducted on research and development engine J022-1 on test stand Delta 2A at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory between December 9, 1966, and April 19, 1967, with no major hardware changes. The total run duration was more than five times the designated number of tests required test
for
completion
qualification was more qualification. Rocketdyne
test time, and the than triple the number At the
time
had delivered
of this 109 J-2
production model engines to MSFC, responsible for technical direction of the engine developme nt. 392 The
S-IC-D
stage
ville on April 23. stage in storage fall. 393
351
arrived
at
MTF
from
Hunts-
Workmen at MTF placed the pending its use in the early
352
351. MTF, laboratory and engineering complex, looking north 352. Installation o[ S-ICD in S-IC-BI test stand at MTF
175
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 353
On April fitted as
27, the Saturn upper stage a manned orbital workshop
model outarrived at
MSFC aboard the Super Guppy aircraft. Douglas Aircraft at its Space Systems
Built by Center,
Huntington Beach, California, the mockup depicted the S-IVB stage as it would be used in the Apollo Applications Program. 394 MSFC announced proposals
onApril 27 that it had asked industry concerning a study to determine
feasibility of developing large cast satellites to be launched manned SaturnV payloads. be capable of broadcasting ceivers. marily
Also
The study with satellite
on April
three previous and confirmed the
payload
27
Such satellites might directly to home re-
would concern technology.395
MSFC
broador un-
completed
itself
pri-
a review
of
Saturn IB improvement studies that it would be feasible to increase capability
solid rocket motor SRM's as the first
176
television as manned
for the
of the Saturn
IB by use
of
(SRM) strap-ons or by use stage booster. 3s_
of
353. S-IVB production area, Hunting_on Beach
APRIL On April
29 the
velopment Company,
contractor
research
1967
and de-
of S-IVB stages, the Douglas Aircraft merged with McDonnell Aircraft Cor-
poration tion. 397
to form
In April
NASA
21107
for
MAY
--
in the
of CCSD's
McDonnell
awarded
amount
Douglas
CCSD
Contract
of $113,400
continuing
for
Corpora-
NAS8-
for the
eight
purpose
months
a Saturn
IB Improvement Study. Object of the study was to provide more detailed data on a projected Saturn IB system with a 120-inch SRM having 7 1/3 segments. the option
The contractor would of launching the vehicle
also investigate with four, two,
or no SRM's depending on mission requirements. The studywould end inDecember 1967. 398 In still another April contract NASA awarded Contract NAS8-21076 to IBM in the amount of $222,000 to perform
a
companion
and
supporting
study
to
CCSD's SaturnIB Improvement Study. IBM's effort lasting seven months would involve definition of astrionics systems required to implement selected vehicle configurations.a99
Thirteen
astronauts
attended
the Saturn
V launch
vehicle systems and performance briefing April 27 and 28 at MSFC. Representatives of various MSFC laboratories made presentations to the astronauts. 354. Installation of optical system in S-IVB space chamber, Huntington Beach 354
material
The
Astrionics
on navigation
Laboratory and guidance
presented control.
The
Aero-Astrodynamics Laboratory presented formation on profiles and made presentations propulsion systems and engine restarts .40o
Twelve
astronauts
visited
MSFC
from
inon
May
2
through May 5 and evaluated modifications proposed for converting the S-IVB liquid hydrogen tank ticed
into a space some of the
station. The astronauts tasks they would perform
pracwhile
orbiting in 10,000 cubic feet of living and working space. Workmen disassembled the mockup, about 60feet longand 22 feet in diameter, and the astronauts,
dressed
in space
suits,
practiced 177
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
putting
it back
CHRONOLOGY
together
in much
the
same
man-
ner as if they had to do it in space. Such a convertedS-IVB stage would provide space in which the astronauts could live and work for an initial 28 days "store"the longer mockup
in space. workshop
Then the astronauts in space for reuse
periods. Douglas at its Huntington
cility and airlifted Guppy aircraftJ °1 Meanwhile,
at
Aircraft Beach,
assembled California,
it to MSFC
SACTO
aboard
technicians
modifications
On
May
on
May
a $4, 665,000 for reliability S-IVB
stage
10,
awarded
project
the
study
178
16 there
dura-
Aircraft contract of Saturn
355
an engine the
first
contracts
since
a successful firing
alignment
flight
Electric, parallel 356
Laboratory, Pasawould be a continua-
was
acceptance
After stage,
Douglas
19. Boeing, General had been conducting definition
on May
second-duration stage.
a short
project definition work in exploration. Proposals
early 1965 for Jet Propulsion dena, California, and this tion of that effort .406 MTF
355. MTF, industrial complex 356. MTF, meteorology lab
successfully
asked Boeing, General Electric, to s ubmit proposals for parallel
would be due May and TRW Systems
At
ap-
components.4°5
for further interplanetary
Voyager
stage
The
come
modification to anexisting and verification testing
On May 15 MSFC and TRW Systems contracts Voyager
would
at Huntsville
acceptance-firedthe S-IB-10 tion of 35. 424 seconds .4o4 NASA,
for 446.9 of S-IVB-
for checkout.
Checkout later, aaa
9 technicians
Super
the stage to the for post-firing
and preparations
stage's All-Systems proximately 60 days
the
stage firing
transferred Laboratory
the fa-
successfully
acceptance-fired the S-IVB-503N seconds.4°2 Afterthe successful 503N, technicians Vertical Checkout
would later for
S-IC
of the optical
125S-IC-4 check,
to be tested
at
MAY MTF, would modification
The left
S-II-2 MTF
be returned and checkout.
stage, on May
to MAF 4°7
aboard 20 en
route
the
for
barge
1967
post-static
Poseidon,
to KSC. 4°8
357
357.
MTF, barges -hurricane precautions
358. MTF, Saturn complex, looking
358
V test northwest
|
!
179
Vice-President on
Monday
Hubert afternoon,
Humphrey May
22.
visited After
MSFC the
Vice
President spoke to employees and guests in front of Building 4200, his motorcade traveled to Building 4755 where Dr. von Braun described to him several mockups related to the ApolloApplications Program and conducted a tour of space vehicle
engineering
models
and test
"hardware."
The Vice-President and his party later watched a static firing of an Uprated Saturn I first stage from the East Observation Bunker. The fullduration test lasted 145.6 seconds.4°9
NASA announced on May 24 that the second stage of the first Saturn V launch vehicle would be dismantled
at KSC to check
for any "hairline"
cracks.
NASA made this decision after finding similar cracks in an identical stago of the vehicle at the North American Aviation, Seal Beach, California, plant.
The space
agency
did not expect
additional
checks to delaythe first Saturn V flight -- an unmanned mission scheduled for mid-August -- by "more than a week or so. ,,410
359
359. Seal Beach complex
180
MAY The
S-II
testing seventh
Battleship
during test,
transition
-
JUNE
1967
and full-duration
the first half of 1967ended May 26, 1967. Firings
cluded a 1.8-second transition 18; the first full-duration test
with the had in-
test on February (360 seconds) on
February 17; four full-duration tests of 355 or more seconds onMarch 17, March 31, April 26, and May 26; and another transition onds duration May 12.41.1 During
May the
highlight
test
of the
orbital
design progress was the intensive IVB orbital workshop design review early
in May with
more
than
of 50 sec-
workshop
three-day Sheld at MSFC
200 engineering
management representatives participating. ganizations represented at the preliminary review included NASA Headquarters, Spacecraft and
Center,
Douglas
Aircraft
Kennedy
Space
and Ordesign Manned
Center,
Company,
MSFC,
manufacturer
of
the S-IVB stage. The review featured an S-IVB mockup built by Douglas and shipped recently to MSFC. Made of non-flight S-IVB hardware, the mockup design
was outfitted of the manned
according to the preliminary orbital workshop. 412
June began with considerable movement of Saturn stages. On June 2, technicians at Cape Kennedy de-stacked the SA-501 to check for imperfections
in the
propellant
tanks
of the
S-II
stage.
They made X-rays and, after finding twelve imperfections, they instigated repairs by burnishing. 41s On June 6 the S-IC-4 flight stage returned to Michoud its
aboard
arrival,
workers
the stage to the Stage ment and post-static
the barge
Pearl
unloaded
River.
Test Building for refurbishcheckout. 414 One day later
workmen removedthe S-IB-10 stage from Static Test Tower and prepared the stage turn shipment to MAF on June 8. 415
NASA changed change of the Michoud
the charter name of the
Assembly
Upon
it and transported
Facility.
on June Michoud
the MSFC for re-
8 to reflect Operations
the to
416 181
SATURN
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On June 13 the S-IB-10 stage arrived at MAF aboard the Palaemon barge from M_SFC where it had undergone acceptance tests.417
The
Center
announced
F-1 engine tests number of tests.
on June
14 that
successful
had reached the 4, 000 mark in This 4, 000thtest occurred when
an F-1 engine at Edwards Field Laboratory, California, ran 165 seconds at 1,542,000 pounds of thrust. The total of 4,000 firings included 2,035 engine firings and 1,965 thrust chamber injection assembly firings. Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation, Inc., developed the engine. Engine number 103-1 4, 000th run, almost 7 years after the firing at Edwards .418
made the first F-1
360 360. F-I Edwards
S-IVB-504N
arrived
ter
Super
via
the
Also on June million letter Boeing's
work
at the Sacramento Guppy
aircraft
16 NASA and Boeing contract extending with
NASA
of the Apollo spacecraft's Saturn V launch vehicle.
i82
Cen16. 413
signed a $20the scope of
to include
integration
three modules Under terms
contract Boeing would: (1) assist NASA and its three manned spaceflight MSC, MSFC, tain technical
Test
on June
with the of this
and support centers --
and KSC -- in performance tasks for Apollo missions
of cerAS-501
test AFB
facilities,
JUNE through
AS-515;
and
(2)
be responsible
porting the Apollo Program the Saturn V booster with and LM. 42° 361
Technicians 501 spacecraft
at KSC completed and electrical
for
1967
sup-
Office in integrating the Apollo CM, SM,
erection of the ASmating of AS-501 on
June 20, as the payload, Apollo Spacecraft 017, went atop the rocket. This first flight vehicle, known as AS-501, was scheduled for launch in the third
quarter
of 1967.
It would
test in which the complete vehicle The spacecraft would re-enter of several thousand miles from
be an unmanned would be "live. " following a flight earth. 421
362
361. Saturn V flight vehicle in VAB-KSC 362. Apollo Saturn V, AS-501 rollout, transfer from VAB to LC 39A
The fired June
S-IVB-209
stage
was
successfully
static-
for a mairmtage duration of 456 seconds on 20 in the Beta I Test Stand at SACTO. The
firing was terminated planned .422
by LOX depletion
cutoff
as
183
SATURN On June
ILLUSTRATED 21 the
S-IC-5
stage
where
it
CHRONOLOGY
PearlRiver from
had
barge
MAF's
Stage
undergone
checkout
and
modification,
changes
and
static
tests.
transported Test
the
Building,
post-manufacturing to MTF
for
additional
423
363
363. River
S-IC-5
364. S-IC-5 through Bascule leaving MTF
364
184
on
Pearl
passing Bridge
JUNE MSFC
announced
on June
22 that
poration
and
Boeing
Company
contract
extensions
for
surface vehicles. for the extension
Bendix and
the
the
further
Bendix had
1967
Cor-
received
study
of lunar
would receive $149, 914 Boeing would receive
$149,485. The two firms would perform specified design study tasks on the vehicle, called a Local Scientific Survey Module (LSSM). MSFC had
awarded
the
two
firms
parallel
contracts, totaling $350,000 1966. These new modifications tract
through
August
six-month
each, on extended
June 29, the con-
1967. 424
The first flight model of the Apollo at KSC on June 23 aboard the Pregnant
LM arrived Guppy air-
craft. This was the payload for SA-204, then on the pad at LC-37. The lunar module would be in KSC's industrial installation atop
area for the launch
Officials at NASA's wards Air Force
rocket Base,
about 45 days vehicle.425 engine test California,
before
site at Edheld brief
ceremonies on June 28, marking the delivery of the millionth ton of cryogenic rocket propellants and pressurants. NASA had used the liquid oxygen
and
liquid
nitrogen
totest
F-1
rocket
engines
during the past six hadbeen in 1961.)
years. (The first engine test Peak testingwas in 1965 when
as many as 35,300 gle month. 42G
tons
were
delivered
in a sin-
NASA announced on June 30 that it had signed two-month extension of a contract modification with
the
Chrysler
of long-lead-time Saturn I first sion,
to
Corporation
initial valued cember
procurement
items for additional Uprated stages. The $2.4 million exten-
continue
in
1967, enabled Chrysler materials, components, necessary bling four
for
a
force
through
August
31,
to continue procuring the and engineering support
to maintain its capability for assemUprated Saturn I boosters per year. The
long-lead-time supplemental agreement, at $7.2 million, had been awarded in De1966. At the time of this extension
185
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award, Chrysler was under contractto and test twelve 1.6 million-pound-thrust at the MAF in New Orleans. 427 MSFC
announced
NASA of a fee contract
also
on
June
assemble stages
30
the
by
$14, 811,540 fixed-price-incentiveto North American Aviation for
additional
H-1
rocket
engines
for
use
stages of Uprated Saturn I vehicles. increased the total number of engines to 322. Delivery ber 1968. 428 During
award
June
would
special
continue
tests
60
on first
This order purchased
throughSeptem-
to determine
the
best
wayto recover and reuse the Saturn V first stage (S-IC) were being conducted at MSFC. In these tests 1/10 scale models of the S-IC were dropped from altitudes of as much as 156 feet into a 20foot-deep
water
tank
to simulate
descent
of the
stage through the earth's atmosphere and into the ocean. Purpose of the tests was to study a "soft splash" with
concept
designed
minimal
to bring
damage.
MSFC
back
the
engineers
recovery method in future years
Four test occurred
firings of the S-IVB battleship stage at MSFC in the January to June 1967 Test S-IVB-042 Test S-IVB-043
for 150 seconds; Test 4.7 seconds ; and Test 199 seconds J30 Records the
at
first
ducted
the
six
end
S-IVB-044 S-IVB-045
of June
months
1,838
R&D
save
a
workable of dollars"
period as follows: for 235.8 seconds;
would .429
S-IC said
of F-1
1967
on April 21, on May 2,
on May on June
indicated
engine
"millions
that
18, 26,
during
Rocketdyne tests
for
for for
cona total
firing time of 149,483 seconds. The tests were performed at Edwards Field Laboratory and at MSFC's West Area F-1 Test Stand. Rocketdyne delivered
ll
F-1
during
the
S-IC-7 for the
stage, S-IC-9
stage 186
spares
same
production six-month
five for stage,
.43t
engines period:
to
Boeing
one for
the S-IC-8 stage, and two as S-IC
the
three flight
365. Seal Beach, S-II [acilities, looking west 365
JUNE Records
at the end
ing the January conducted 103
of June
also
indicated
1967
that dur-
to June 1967 period Rocketdyne J-2 engine R&D tests at Santa
Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) for a total firing time of 18,904.5 seconds; conducted 66 J-2 engine production
tests
for
a total
seconds;and continued J-2 testing at AEDC, including tion tests
proving
restart
capability
verification tests . In this same cepted 19 J-2 production engines, these as government for S-II flight stages and IVB
duration
of 10,443
engine environmental S-IVB-501 verificaandS-II-501
period NASA acallocated 17 of
furnished equipment to NAA and one as an S-II spare,
provided the other engine flight stage engine. 432
to DAC as
an S-
366
366. S-IU-503 leaving IBM facility, Huntsville 367. S-IC-8 horizontal installation at Michoud
367
187
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
MSFC
awarded
contract
McDonnell
this
rated Saturn
I program
phasis on uses
began
age. IB-9
For
example,
sophis-
program.
and SA-208 stages
post-static
and alsoS-IVB-209
was
433
month,
uled for a mainstage seconds.
static
of approximately
on June
of shortage
S-
20, as sched-
assembly
for completion
to July I0 because
of SThe
a successful
duration
S-IU-209
previously
26 was
delayed
of assembly
sup-
plies, including lack of some distributors. At this same time the later Saturn IB vehicle, SA210,
was
under
dergoing S-IVB-210 awaiting SACTO.
was
21,
in process.
1967, 434
S-IB-10
modification
in storage
availability Fabrication
pleted June were
development.
post-static
was
and
at Huntington
of Beta 3 of S-IU-210 and
assembly
un-
repair. Beach
Test Stand at had been comoperations
369
!
188
368
in stor-
checkout
on June
IB
of develop-
continuing.
stage had undergone
scheduled
more
V, with initial em-
in various
firing the previous 456
and several
SA-206,
was
IVB-209
explore
the last half of 1967 with Saturn
for SA-205,
of
terms
for the Up-
of the stage in the AA
SA-209
ment.
would
workshop
of the Saturn
$496,024
versions Under
the contractor
for a follow-on
ticated versions
stages
a
orbital workshop.
contract,
concepts
NASA
Douglas
on July I to study advanced
the SaturnS-lVB of
CHRONOLOGY
368. Overall view of high bay east, IBM Huntsville, S-IU-210 in fabrication, S-IU-504 in assembly, S-IU-503 in storage, and S-IU-209 in systems test 369. S-IVB-211 in storage, S-IVB-507 being painted, background: S-IVB-510 aft skirt, S-IVB-510 forward dome, and S-IVB-506 aft interstage, leftright foreground Huntington Beach assembly building
JULY 1967 370
370. S-IVB-211, Huntington Beach fabrication area 371. MTF, laboratory and engineering complex, looking north
On July
11 the
first
and
ond Saturn V booster at KSC in preparation mission
to test
the
heat shield. The 13 and instrument 371
second
stages
of the
Apollo
spacecraft's
reentry
third stage was added unit on July 14. 4a6
Saturn transportation unusually busy in the
sec-
were mechanically mated for the AS-502 unmanned on July
personnel found themselves middle of July. The second
stage of the third Saturn V flight vehicle (S-II-3) departed its manufacturing site at Seal Beach, California,
on July
12 for
a 13-day
The one-million-pound-thrust age aboard the U.S. Naval
S-II Ship
which NASA used for transportingthe the West Coast. Schedules called to reach
MTF
July
26 where
trip
to MTF.
made Point
the voyBarrow
stages for the
it would
from S-II-3
be ground-
fired by NAA, and later shipped to KSC for mating with the other stages of the Saturn V. Meanwhile, MSFC announced gines for Saturn V rockets
on July 12 that F-1 enwere now being trans-
ported from Canoga Park, California, to New Orleans, Louisiana, by highway instead of air. The MSFC announcement stated that the first engine
was
already
en route
to New Orleans.
vious shipments of the engines specially adapted aircraft. 436
had
been
Premade
by
189
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 372
On July 24, MSFC awarded Inc., a $93, 136 contract for and testing dle tools, sisted of
the spacecraft, versions of the
controlled wouldbe
larger
to hanIt conhinges,
from either connected to
and one would be free. device could be powered
pump or batteries; motors .437
versions,
Small by hand
by electric
announced on July 26 that NASA had a $2. 275 million contract to the Boeing
Company for procurement terials for two additional The
Space Labs., development
of a remotely controlled device equipment, and men in space. links connected by powered
which could be remotely end of the device. Oneend
MSFC awarded
Astro further
CPFF
contract
was
of long-lead-time maSaturn V flight Boosters. the
first
Saturn
V pro-
curement in support of NASA's Apollo Applications program. Boeing, prime contractor for the 7.5 miUion-pound-thrusf first stage (S-IC) of the Saturn
V launch
stages
at MAF,
vehicle, for
the
was Apollo
manufacturing manned
ploration program. Boeingwould such items as propellant ducts, tunnels,
and
fuel
tank
and 17th stages. The January 1, 1968. 438 190
components contract
lunar
12 ex-
begin acquiring liquid oxygen for would
the expire
16th on
372. S-IC stages in horizontal area, Michoud
JULY 1967 Also on July Corporationto CPIF ments
26 NASA negotiate
selected Martin Marietta a 27-month, $98-million
contract for payload integration of experiand experiment support equipment on AA
spacecraft. Tasks would be performed three manned spaceflight centers: work
would
involve
the
orbital
at NASA's (1) MSFC
workshop
at ATM;
(2) MSC work would involve the meteorological and earth resources payloads, and (3) KSC work would involve the test integration planning and support for launch operations. 439 373
3,3.
S-II-5 _n S-II A-2 test strand at MTF
The
S-II-3
July S-II
27, where to be static
stage
for
SA-503
arrived
at MTF
on
it would become the first flight fired in the A-1 Test Stand, a
third stand to be completed at MTF and the second operational as of that date for testing of S-II stages. Begun in December 1964, the A-1 Test Stand was built pany, MTF
Inc., at personnel
by a division
of the Koppers
a cost of more static-fired the
than first
Com-
$8 million. and second
flight versions of the S-II in the previously completed A-2 Test Stand December 1 and 30, 1966, and April 6 and 15, 1967. After checkout of the A-1 stand and for the rocket "burntime"
the S-II-3 stage, to be static-fired
of six
minutes.
schedules for the
Duringthat
called normal time
the
191
SATURN
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CHRONOLOGY
stage's five rocket engines were expected to develop one million pounds of thrust as they would in space. Schedules rockets to be tested Program .44o
MSFC and orandum Selected
called for 12 more stage at MTF as part of the Apollo
KSC on July
31 signed
a formal
of Agreement concerning MSFC Personnel. " The
Mem-
"KSC Use of agreement laid
the ground rules for use of MSFC personnel by KSC to (1) support the AS-501 launch scheduled for September 1967, and (2) to support projects of mutual
interest
and importance
which
would
sonnel
for temporary
require
additional
test test
in twodays at MSFC's
demonstrated complex,
integrity
of the
Systems stage fired No. 22 on August 3, the to complete a 40-second S-IC Test Complex. The readiness and the
It also provided and demonstrated
Saturn
MSFC announced
per-
of time. 441
the operational the S-IC-T stage,
support equipment. KSC launch crews
Centers
specialized
periods
The S-IC-T Battleship/All for 41.74seconds in Test third attempt captive firing
to both
V liftoff
on August
of the ground
training for the launch
switch.
442
3 the successful
com-
pletion of a dynamic test program of the Apollo/ Saturn V, in effect giving "the green light" for the launch of the first Apollo/Saturn V later in the
year
as
far
as dynamics
and
structures
were
concerned. Boeing conducted the test program at MSFC under the direction of MSFC engineering personnel, the latter providing test criteria and monitoring started sequent instrument MSFC space These
of effort.
with the first tests included made
unit, several
Initial
dynamic
tests
had
stage of the Saturn V. Subthe second and third stage, and
the
slight
Apollo
spacecraft.
modifications
to the
vehicle as a result of the dynamic program. tests included determination of the bending
and vibration hicle. Tests tower in the
characteristics were carried Center's Test
of the complete veout in a 400-foot-high Laboratory. *A3
192
\
JULY On
August
iotaling
7 NASA
issued
million
tothe
$30.9
-
AUGUST
three
1967
modifications
NAA contract
for the
Saturn V second (S-II) stage. The first modification, valued at $5.5 million, provided for equitable adjustment of second stage changes previously valued at
ordered; the second $5.8 million, covered
modification, seven changes
involvingKSC ground support equipment; and the third modification, valued at $19.4 million, was for 12 changes switches and
covering insulation
alterations of selector of the entire second
stage.
444
MSFC verted
announced onAugust 10that the systems integration
Chrysler
Corporation's
Uprated
cost-plus-incentive-fee $22 million conversion, systems
integration
NASA had conportion of the Saturn
agreement. the total segment
I to a
With this value of the
of Chrysler's
six-
part Uprated Saturn I contract was $35.5 million. Under this arrangement Chrysler's fee was judged according to the quality and timeliness in which
Chrysler
ler's major technology,
accomplished
responsibilities also guidance and control,
systems engineering. vide systems analysis, ices. form
Chrys-
included flight and propulsion
personnel at both
would
would MSFC
be effective
perand
through
The S-IVB-505N stage was loaded aboard the Super Guppy aircraft at Huntington Beach on August 17 and testing._6
transported
An MSFC August NASA had awarded Rocketdyne 374.
work.
Chrysler would also proand documentation serv-
In addition Chrysler their assignments
Michoud. The contract April 1969. 445 374
its
l.,owering S-IC-5 onto barge at MTF
Inc.,
for
Division continued
toSACTO
18 announcement a $1.4 million of North
for
stated that contract to the
American
technological
acceptance
Aviation,
investigation
of
the advanced aerospike rocket engine. In the aerospike engine a doughnut-shaped combustion chamber
discharges
gases
against
the
surface
of
193
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
a short
center
CHRONOLOGY
cone.
This
contrasts
with con-
ventional rocket engines in which panded inside long, bell-shaped
gases are nozzles.
concept
resulted
for
the
aerospike
engine
exThe from
studies of unconventional engines undertaken by MSFC. Early designs called for the engine to be about eight feet in diameter and four and one-half feet
high,
about
50 percent
shorter
than
conven-
tional bellnozzle engines. Work onthe aerospike engine was at Rocketdyne's Canoga Park, California, plant and at field laboratories. Contract completion The
date
chamber
was
was
scheduled first
for May 31,
tested
in May
1968.
of 1967. 447
On August 23 indication of "fire" in the J-2 engine caused termination of the S-IVB-504N acceptance firingat 51.23 seconds. Post-test investigation revealed that there had been an inadvertent indication of "fire" caused by improper wiring of fire detection monitor. On
August
25 S-IC-5
acceptance
firing
problems,
the
with The
all major following
test
test
stage
acceptance firing d urat ion .448
a full-duration
at MTF.
was
Despite
considered
objectives day in the
the S-IVB-504N
"Rollout" nedySpace and other
underwent
several
satisfactory
having been achieved. Beta I Stand at SACTO
successfully
underwent
of approximately
an
438 seconds
of AS-501 occurred August 26 at KenCenter. Representatives from MSFC NASA organizations, and newsmen,
were present when a huge door of the Vehicle Assembly Building was raised to allow passage of this
first
flight
vehicle.
able launch platform million pounds, crept miles away at a top an hour. Workmen
The rocket
speed of less than secured AS-501
flame trench within approximately ter it had reached the launch site. gust 28 workmen at KSC placed pound mobile service structure foot-tall 194
vehicle,
and
its
port-
and tower, weighing 12.2 to the launch mound 3.5
providing
0.5 mile over the
four hours afThen on Au-
the nine-millionaround the 363work
platforms
and
AUGUST other launch On
access during date. 449
September
executed
the
18 the
a contract
-
seven
NASA
SEPTEMBER weeks
prior
procurement
modification
1967 to
officer
(supplemental
agreement 813) for five additional S-II flight stages (S-II-11 through S-II-15) to become effective on October 3. Authorization and funding to procure
long-lead-time
hardwa're
for
these
stages had been given previously, during the first quarter of 1967. This was a $159,716,477 contract modification for the fabrication of the five Saturn
V second
stages.
Purchase
stages completed the S-II 15 Saturn V launch vehicles opment for the
of these
requirements approved
in the Apollo program. Schedules first of the stages to be delivered
in February stage contract imately $1.2
1969. The with North billionJ 5°
five
for the for develcalled to NASA
total value of the S-II American was approx-
The S-II-3 stage fired for approximately onds during its first acceptance test,
65 secSeptember
19. Primary objectives that were achieved included qualification of the A-1 Test Stand flame bucket
and
demonstration
of the
stage,
stand,
and
control room compatibility. Special objectives that were accomplished included evaluation of the slow chill
of the LH 2 tank,
gallon-per-minute fast-fill fill and
maximum
mode, over-fill
The major Aviation, Corporation American
achievement LOX fill
and verification 451 sensors.
of the
of a 3800rate
S-II stage contractor, North American Inc., merged with Rockwell-Standard on September 22 to form the North Rockwell (NAR) Corporation. 452
The S-II-3 stage underwent a full-duration seconds) static firing on September 27 with mination
in the
LH2 fast-
automatically
The firing of the stage ified that the requirements
initiated
demonstrated under static stage .453
met
by LOX depletion.
the functional firing conditions specified
(358 ter-
integrity and ver-
acceptance
test
195
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
NASA
announced
CHRONOLOGY on October
the Saturn V program ditional S-IVB stages Corporation quirements
and 12 UpratedSaturnI
value total nell
for both
million, approved
launch
in April brought
number Douglas
in support
it was purchasing from the McDonnell
for $146.5 for currently
would begin The purchase
4 that
1968 the
vehicles
of
nine adDouglas
fulfilling re15 Saturn V
vehicles.
Delivery
and end in May 1970. total S-IVB contract
to $957,
t82,093
and
the
of stages purchased to 27. McDonalso received a $24 million cost-
plus-fixed-fee (CPFF) contract extension for SIVB launch services at KSC, which increased the total value of the contract to $34million. Included were stage receipt, evaluation. 454
Also
checkout,
on October
Company that 10S-IC stages, had submitted
4 NASA
launch,
informed
NASA announced, had
also
used AEDC
tanks
facilities
hicle
as living
to investigate
MSFC
prepara-
for human occupancy involved dumping 840
liquid nitrogen J-2 rocket 100,000-foot
quarters
AS-501, postponed
(LN) through engine. Conaltitude, this
ished, engineers the date for the
for a space
station.
announced onOctober of the Saturn V-Apollo
scheduled until
with ground support countdown rehearsal.
196
4, that
experiment would pave the way for to move inside an orbiting stage and
A NASA spokesman the planned launch be
Boeing
20 covering the for fabrication
on October
rocket stage investigation
gallons of s uper-cold a "dead" or inactive ducted at a simulated dumping tronauts
the
launch
it was terminating procurement of S-IC-16throughS-IC-25. Boeing a proposal on July 3 and an ad-
justed proposal on September necessary supplies and services and delivery of the stages.455
tion of a spent in space. The
and
early
for
October
17,
November.
equipment had Once rehearsal
would evaluate unmanned launch.
asuse 456
10 that 4 vewould
Troubles stalled was
results 457
and
She finset
OCTOBER
-
NOVEMBER
1967
The countdown rehearsal for Apollo 4 (AS-501) ended on October 14; final flight preparations were about
to be completed three weeks .458
for
scheduled
launch
in
Maj. Gen. Samuel C. Phillips, Apollo Program Director, announced on October 26 that the first flighttestofSaturn V, designatedApollo 4, could be scheduled no earlier'than November 7. "This is a target date," he said.
"We
are in a very
complex learning process and we are going to take all the time we need on this first launch." Key objective of the flightplanned for November 7 would be evaluation of Apollo command module heat shield under conditions encountered on return from
the moon
flightplan would
mission.
The
Apollo
4
call for Saturn V to place the
spacecraft and launch vehicle third stage (S-IVB) into ll7-mile circular orbit. After completing two orbits, the third stage would to place spacecraft
be re-ignited
into orbit with apogee
of
I0,800 miles. After separation from the third stage, the service module propulsion system would be fired to raise the spacecraft apogee to 1i,400 miles .459
On
November
tion
1 NASA selected
to negotiate
a contract
ment, qualification, tion, cryogenic gas 56-day wouldbe
Bendix
for
design,
and delivery storage tanks
manned flight in the a critical pacing item
Corporadevelop-
of long-durafor the first
AAP. The tanks for long-duration
manned flights in AAP. Completion of negotiations would permit an early award if the project were continued by NASA as programmed.46° NASA Associate Flight, vember called
Administrator
Dr. George 4 a revised for six flights
the "200-series" series" (Saturn qualify (C&SM
Command, and LM).
for
Manned
Space
Mueller, announced on NoApollo mission schedule that in 196 8 and
five in 196 9 using
(UpratedSaturnI) and the "500V) launch vehicles to test and Service, and The schedule
Lunar Modules for 1968 would 197
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
include: manned ond
and
Apollo/Saturn test of LM
unmanned
C&SM;
second
missionto
flight on Saturn
V and Apollo
unmanned
V
flight test
first manned qualify C&SM
Apollo for fur-
first manned
V, to provide
and LM,
sec-
test of Saturn
operations ;and AS-504,
with both C&SM
first un-
in earth orbit; AS-502,
orbit; AS-205,
flight, a 10-day
Apollo
(AS-204),
third unmanned
AS-206,
inearth
ther manned
204
flight test of Saturn
AS-503,
C&SM;
of LM
CHRONOLOGY
experience
including crew
transfer
from C&SM to LM and rendezvous and docking. The schedule for 1969 would include five manned flights (AS-505 four programmed flights or
through
AS-509)
as lunar mission
lunar missions
being that flight in which be made 461
with
the first
development
simulations
-- AS-509
the lunar landing would
375
376
198
375. Apollo lunar landing mission, typical profile 376. Aerial view of LC39, KSC 377. Mobile service structure arriving at LC-3f_A forApollo Saturn 501 378. Saturn 501 from top of mobile service structure, Pad 39A 379. AS-501 launch
NOVEMBER 377
Also
on November
part
of the
AS-501 vehicle
4 came
two-part
launch, pre-count
the
terminal
a countdown fl s2
start
of the
countdown known
1967
first
for the
as the
launch
The second part of the terminal countdown for the AS-501 launch progressed normally through all scheduled holds on November 6.463
NASA
reached a criticalpoint in the Apollo Pro-
gram with the Apollo 4 flight (AS-501) on November 9, an"all-up" launch from LC-39 at KSC. The flight,termed "perfect" based on evaluation of flightdata, demonstrated that the spacecraft, heat shield, and lunar rocket met program requirements.
S-IC stage LOX
depletionsensors
signaled S-IC outboard engine cutoff at 150.8 seconds after launch. The second burn, lasting 300 seconds, injected the spacecraft into an orbitwith an apogee of 9,301 nauticalmiles. Spacecraft reentry occurred at 400,000 feet, at a flightpath angle of -7. 077 degrees with an internal velocity of 36,537 feet per second. The CM
379
landed upright within nine nautical miles of the planned landing point in the Pacific Ocean, 8 hours 37 minutes 8 seconds after launch. The CM
was
recovered
by divers from
the carrier
USS Bennington 2 hours 14 minutes after splashdown. Post-launch examination revealed that the aftheat shield was heavily charred but that crewcompartment-heat-shield expected. The spacecraft
charring was less than windows were undam-
aged, but moisture existed between the micrometeoroidandheat shield panels of the rendezvous window,
and
matelytwo relief
valve.
the
quarts
spacecraft of sea
Apollo
two to three missions V for manned flight, structural vehicle and IVB restart,
integrity
4's
contained water flight
designed and the and
taken was
patibility of launch vehicle and ground support had been proven.
the
the
first
to qualify first test
compatibility
spacecraft. Heat structural/thermal
approxithrough
of
Saturn of the of launch
shield design, Sintegrity, comspacecraft, 464
and
199
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY
The blastoff of Saturn V at KSC produced one of the loudest noises in history, natural or manmade, according to a November 9 announcement by Columbia servatory,
University's Lamont Geological located at Palisades, New York.
servatory
physicist
Dr.
William
Donn
ObOblabeled
U.S. and U. S. S.R. nuclear explosions as the only louder manmade sounds, and the 1883 fall of the Great Siberian Meteorite as the ural sound on record. 465 On November two
20 NASA
manned
crew 1968,
Saturn
named
V/Apollo
CM pilot; Backup
Conrad,
commander;
Jr.,
CM pilot; and crew forAS-505 would
Michael Anders,
Alan L. (second be:
A. Armstrong, CM pilot; and
for the
flights.
nat-
first
As prime
scheduled for commander;
and Russel L. Schweickcrew would be Charles Richard
F.
Gordon,
Bean, LM pilot. Prime mission), scheduled for
Frank
Collins, LM pilot.
louder
crews
for AS-504 (first mission), it named: James A. McDivitt,
David R. Scott, art, LM pilot.
1969,
only
Borman,
commander;
CM pilot; and WilliamA. Backup crew would be Neil
commander; James A. Lovell, Edwin E. Aldrin, LM pilot• A
three-astronaut support team was named for each flight crew: for AS-504Edgar D. Mitchell, Fred W. Haise, Jr., and Alfred M. Worden; and forAS-505 Carr, and
-- Thomas F. Mattingly John S. Bull. 466
II, Gerald
P. 380
The S-II-4 stage, more powerful and somewhat lighter than previous S-II flight stages, arrived at MTF on November 26 from the NAR Corporation, Seal Beach, California• Each J-2 engine of this stage had been uprated to produce 5,000 more pounds
of thrust
than
had been
vious J-2 engines. The lighter from the use of thinner propellant lighter weight structuresf167 NASA
announced
of the Apollo
on December
4mission
data
initial reports that Spacecraft objectives without problems. 200
developed
by pre-
weight resulted tank walls and
3 that
continued 017 met Detailed
evaluation to confirm all flight systems
380. Installation ol 8-II-4 in test stand at MTF
NOVEMBER
analyses date ated met On
were
still
-
DECEMBER
in process,
but
ihdicated that the spacecraft properly during the November all specifications .46a December
$1,292,218, $200,644,
5 IBM
received
Approximately and
100
industry
design meeting cuss structures,
of
for
use
on
atop the SA-502 vehiHigh Bay 3 at KSC on
representatives attended
of Govern-
an Orbital
Workshop
at MSFC December 11-14 to dismechanical systems, propul-
instrumentation, and electrical
communications, systems. At this
shop members formulated Orbital Workshop mockup January
to
a supplement
management of 27 IU's Saturn I and Saturn V. 469
Erection of the spacecraft cle occurred in the VAB December 9. 4?0
sion, station,
evidence
systems oper9 mission and
bringing the IU contract total to 441. IBM received the supplement for
configuration the Uprated
ment
1967
1968 with
plans for a five-day review to be held in late
a McDonnell
tion mockup containing concepts on display. 471
crew work-
the
Douglas most
Corpora-
recent
design
President Lyndon B. Johnson, accompanied by NASA Administrator and Mrs. James E. Webb, other officials from NASA Headquarters, MSFC officials,
381. Underwater neutral buoyancy test using toot restrainer [or Saturn I workshop, Huntington Beach 381
and
McKeithen, on December spoke to Americans
Louisianats
toured the Michoud Assembly 12. While at MAF the
some are
2,600 spectators, the first to really
first to understand will never evacuate other Nation. We pioneers NASA officials cember from
Governor
who lead
John Facility President
stating: "We enter and the
the Twentieth Century. We the frontiers of space to any will bewe must be --the the
Administrator
way to the
stars.
James
Webb
E.
,,4_ and
of NASA stopped briefly at MSFC 13 on their way backto Washington, Michoud.
J.
During
his
stopover
Mr.
other on DeD.C., Webb
201
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
toured
the AAP mockup
[ng, by Dr. von tives, on various The
CHRONOLOGY
Boeing
study
on
area
Braun aspects
Company
and received
and other MSFC execuof the work. 473 completed
December
a brief-
17
to
an eight-month
define
performance
growth potential of the Saturn V and to determine alternate uprating methods to meet future missions of the Saturn program. 474 Chrysler
Corporation
cessfully static-fired er (S-IB-II) for
personnel
at
MSFC
suc-
the upratedSaturn I boost35 seconds on December 19.
The stage would be shipped to Michoud Assembly Facility for post-firing checkout upon completion of a 145-second, full duration captive firing. 475 On December
21 the S-IC-3
to the barge Poseidon KSC 476 and the S-1/-3 the
barge
Point
On December tiations with stage
stage
was
loaded
at Michoud for shipment to stage departed MT F aboard
Barrow,
en route
to KSC.4T_
29 MSFC announced start of negoCCSD for an extension to the S-IB
contract
to cover
four
additional
S-IB
flight
stages and related services at an estimated of $2.5 million. This would bring to 16 the number of S-IB flight CCSD for MSFC. 478 The S-IVB-503N the Super Guppy ceraber 30. 4_9
stage, aircraft,
NASA announced six months engine
R&D
stages
by
shipped from SACTO via arrived at KSC on De-
on December
31 that
of 1967Rocketdyne tests
cost total
to be developed
in the
conducted
accumulating
14,675
firing time at SSF L and also conducted tion engine tests having a total firing 4,449 seconds. 48° During this same etdyne conducted 122 R&D F-1 Edwards Field Laboratory (EFL) lated West
firingtime Area Test
of 13,254seconds; Stand it conducted
gine
R&D tests
that totaled
202
on-
final
100 J-2 seconds
35 producduration of time Rock-
engine tests at for an accumuand at MSFC's eight F-1 en-
340 seconds
of firing
DECEMBER time. duction
1967
Rocketdyne meanwhile engine tests at EFL
onds firing time and gines to NASA .481
During
December
fixed-price air cargo brought 633 and
11 production
NASA extended
the total provided
ofAero The
JANUARY
1968
conducted 36 prutotalling 2,983 sec-
delivered
contract services.
-
for
en-
one year
Spacelines, $2,725,000
the
Inc., for extension
value of the contract to $11,591, air transport service for over-
sized cargo of the Saturn vehicles through November
I and Saturn 1968.482
V launch
NASA began 196 8 with work in process on the AS502 launchvehicle, preparatory to the launch that would first dock
382
take
inApril.
Meanwhile, all
8A-503
MSFC announced on January was entering 1968 with firm many year. goal
as
S-IC's) would plying Saturn sembly
six
Apollo/Saturn
It also announced of a lunar landing
of eight
382. S-IC stage load test at MTF
place
week in January at KSC. 483
Saturn during
year
on
10 that the Center plans to support as launches
(five at the
during
S-II's MTF.
be going on, MAF personnel the finishing touches to the I booster and forging ahead of Saturn
the
were
plans for supporting by 1970 with static
V stages the
during
stages
V boosters
the the tests
and three While
this
would be ap12th Uprated with the as-
through
S-IC-15.
Meanwhile, at KSC NASA would attempt to chalk up the 15th consecutive Saturn launch no earlier than
January
rated Saturn the schedule Apollo/Saturn carry
several
18 with
the
flight
of the
fourth
Up-
I. A week later, on January 24, called for the roll-out of the second Vto the launch pad. AS-502 would minor
modifications
that were
rec-
ommended by MSFC as a result of data provided by the first Apollo/Saturn V, which had flown in November of t967. In addition to the previous announcement start of 1968, MSFC also noted that other
at the Saturn 2O3
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 383
vehicles
in various
cluded manned
phases
of preparation
the Apollo/Saturn 206 flight vehicle scheduled
in theUprated series. S-IB-12, inal order, was in final assembly Michoudat for
the start
Uprated
of 1968.
Saturn
I's
in-
and another to fly after
un204
last of the origand checkout at
Also,
S-IVB
205 through
stages
209 were
in
storage at the Sacramento Test Facility. S-IVB stages 210 through 212 were in various stages of readiness at Huntington Beach and had not yet been ment the
static units IBM
stages post-static 506 was
fired. -- 205 plant
504 and
The Uprated Saturn through 209 -- were
in 505
Huntsville. were
Saturn
at Sacramento,
checks were underway. The in post-manufacturing checkout
I instrustored in V S-IVB where S-IVBat Sac-
ramento and was awaiting a statictest. All others were in manufacturing. The 5041U had been completed at IBM/Huntsville. S-IU-505 was in post-manufacturing checkout and others were being assembled. 484 204
383. AS-501 sequence
mission
JANUARY
384
i"
C,
384u.
S-IC
ture
shear
choud, b. installation,
thrust
b.
![
,"
....
d.
struc-
webs, S-IC
a.
1968
Mi-
engine Michoud,
c. S-IC tank ring baffles, M_choud, d. S-IC engine fairing fitup, Michoud 385.
S-IC
flight
stage, Michoud
385
205
SATURN NASA cised
ILLUSTRATED announced the second
tions with the Temco-Vought ices
for
the
CHRONOLOGY
on January 5 that of three one-year Range (LTV)
major
Systems Division of Lingto provide computer servcontractors
NASA-Michoud Assembly leans. The new $2,704,349 basic cost-plus-award-fee by MSFC
for
it had exerrenewal op-
Michoud.
operating
at the
Facility in New Orextension of LTV's contract was awarded
The
contract,
to contin-
ue in force until January 8, 1969, would increase the total value of the LTV's contract to $7,641, 584. based
NASA had originally firm on December
puter
services
Orleans nearby
selected the Dallas1965, to provide com-
at the Michoud
and at its Computer Slidell, Louisiana.485
installation Operations
in New Office
in
386
386.
S-II-4
vertical ing
206
removal
checkout
at MTF
from build-
JANUARY An
indication
Saturn Saturn
of NASA's
varied
activities
1968
in the
Program can be gained by a glance at the V Weekly Report for January 10 as fol-
lows: AS-502 Flight Vehicle (final package) scheduled for delivery to KSC January 26, also for the AS-502 flight the final program tapes) and SLCC (ground scheduled for delivery to KSC 1968. Status of the AS-503 Flight
was 1968;
LVDC (flight tapes) were
by February Vehicle was
5, as
follows: all three stages were in the VAB-KSC undergoing inspection and checkout; as for the S-IU-503 for AS-503, adverse weather conditions and had
mechanical delayed the
problems delivery
from Status
December 29, of the AS-504
Stage
was
goingmod
in test
with the Super Guppy of the IU on-dock KSC
1967, Flight
cell
to January 4, 1968. Vehicle was: S-IC-4
at Boeing-Michoud
incorporation;the
stage
on-dock at KSC April 15, 1968; AS-504was at test stand at MTF work
prior
to LOX/LH2
tanking
was
underscheduled
S-II-4 Stage for undergoing rood test
with
captive
firing scheduled for January 26, 1968, and then the stage was scheduled on-dock KSC March 31, 1968;
the
S-IVB-504
stage
VCL-SACTO and transfer onto Beta
for AS-504
the stage I TestStand
was
in the
was scheduled fordeferred
for post-
firing checkout after completion of Korotherm rework, after which the stage was scheduled ondock KSC March 31, 1968; the S-IU-504 Unit for AS-504was in storage atIBM-Huntsville, uled on-dock KSC April 15, 1968. Status 505 Flight age
Vehicle
was:
at Boeing-Michoud,
S-IC-5
Stage
was
scheduled
schedof ASin stor-
on-dock
KSC
June 29, 1968; S-II-5 Stage forAS-505 was undergoing shakedown inspection preparations at NAA/ SD-SealBeach, prior to on-docking MTF February 9, 1968, and then on-docking KSC June 29, 1968;S-IVB-505Stage for AS-505 was in storage at VCL-SACTO, scheduled for on-dock KSC June 29,
1968;
and
S-IU-505
Unit
for
AS-505
component assembly at IBM-Huntsville, uled on-dock KSC June 29, 1968. 486 NASA gotiate
announced with
on January
CCSD,
11 that
New Orleans,
was
in
sched-
it would for
ne-
assembly 207
SATURN and
ILLUSTRATED delivery
CHRONOLOGY
of four
additional
S-IB
rate of two per year. Earlier, tracted with Chrysler for production time
materials,
stages. formed
parts,
and components
Work related at New Orleans
Chrysler to furnish
stages
at a
NASA had conof long-leadfor these
to this effort would be perunder direction of MSFC.
presently was under 12 Saturn IB flight
contract stages.
with NASA 487 387
387. booster bor area
NASA
announced
also
on January
ll,
1968,
that
it would negotiate with McDonnell Douglas, Huntington Beach, California, for assembly and delivery vehicle
of four second
additional (S-IVB)
Uprated stages
Saturn I launch at a rate of two
per year. The negotiations were expected to result in a contract valued in excess of $48 million. Earlier NASA had contracted with Douglas for production of long-lead-time and components for these to this effort would Beach under direction 208
materials, stages. Work
be performed of MSFC.488
parts, related
at Huntington
MTF. storage
S-IC. and
S-lI har-
JANUARY On January etdyne
16 NASA announced
Division,
North
the
American
award
1968
to Rock-
Rockwell
Cor-
poration, of a contract valued at $14, 796,400 for engineering support services for H-1 engines. The H-1 engines would be used to power the first stage
of the
Saturn
IB
launch
this cost-plus-incentive-fee etdyne would be responsible port
services
delivery, formance
for engine
application, evaluation.
vehicles.
agreement, for engineering manufacturing,
reliability, The major
work would be at Rocketdyne's California, plant. Minor segments formed installed
at MAF, where the H-1 on the SaturnIB's first
Kennedy
Space
contract would June 1971.489 NASA flight,
Center's cover
announced the first
nar module,
the
period
being
Rocksuptesting,
and flight perportion of the Canoga Park, would be per-
engines stage,
launch
on January test in space
was
Under
would be and at the
complex. July
The
1967 through
17 that the Apollo 5 of an unmanned lu-
rescheduled
for no earlier
than Monday, January 22. Reason for the rescheduling was that some launch operations being done for the first time required more time than expected
for
hypergolic The new
propellants aboard the spacecraft. schedule would be dependent upon the
success
completion,
of several
including
additional
the
ground
loading
tests,
of
in-
cluding the launch countdown demonstration test, scheduled for completion on January 19. 4s° A mockup of the S-IVB manned orbital workshop January
17.
The
full
stage was size
to be used as a flown to MSFC on
model
arrived
from
the West Coast aboard the giant Super Guppy aircraft. The mockup would be used later in the month for a crew station plans called for launching
design review. the flight orbital
shop as the second stage vehicle. Once in space,
of the Saturn IB launch astronauts would con-
vert the stage's working quarters workshop McDonnell
NASA work-
l_rge fuel tank into living and for a 28-day stay. The orbital
mockup Douglas,
had
recently manufacturer
been
modified of the
by
Saturn 209
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 388
upper
stage
for MSFC.
This
was
the
mockup's
second trip to MSFC. The previous spring engineers had used the model at MSFC in its original configuration for design studies.491 The
Saturn
lunar
IB
module
satisfactorily. 4:48 p.m. lifted
off
after three
ground hours
(AS-204)
launch
it orbited
on January
This Apollo (CST) January Launch
vehicle
Complex
and the
22 performed
5 mission began at 22 when the Saturn 37
at
Cape
Kennedy
support equipment caused a delay of 50 minutes. The liftoff came at sun-
down on a day so clear
that
both
stages
were
vis-
ible to the unaided eye long after stage separation. The S-IB could be seen falling and the S-IVB going on toward orbit when tracking equipment indicatedthat the second stage was almost 90 miles up and 168 miles downrange. The Saturn hurled the lunar module into space to begin a series of tests of the LM's ascent and descent propulsion systems, space.
the
first
3uch
test
in the
vacuum
of
492
MSFC workshop
announced
on
engineering
January mockup
30 that
an orbital
simulating
the
flight vehicle was being readied for an extensive five-day crew station review February 12-16 at 210
388. Simulated weightlessness activity in S-IVB Orbital Workshop mockup at Huntington Beach
JANUARY MSFC. were
During
the
scheduled
review,
to "walk
through"
the ground that would later zero gravity conditions. clude
experiment
several
1968
astronauts many
tasks
on
be done in orbit under These tasks would in-
installation
and
operation.
Lighting tests were being conducted week in the orbital workshop mockup of the MSFC Propulsion and Vehicle
during the by engineers Engineering
Laboratory. P&VE was the lead laboratory the development of the workshop. 493
for
NASA announced on January the second Apollo spacecraft
of and
30 that lunar
shipment module
the fifth Saturn IB rocket to KSC would be postponed pendingfurtherevaluation of Apollo 5 mission results. Initial evaluation of the first lunar module
flight
on January
a second unmanned IB, might not be craft tailed
22-23
flight, required
for flight with review of flight
had
indicated
that
launched by the Saturn to qualify the space-
men data
aboard. Further and deliberations
deby a
NASA design certification review board in March would determine the final decision. Meanwhile, the Lunar Module 2 and the Saturn IB rocket stages
would
be
to KSC on threely. Refurbishment second
unmanned
sion Control Coastal maintain another
During eral
maintained
ready
and 14-day notices, of LC 37Bwould lunar
Center,
module
Houston,
for
shipment
respectiveproceed for a
flight.
The
and tracking
Misships
Sentry Quebec and Rose Knot Victor would the operational capability to support unmanned lunar module flight. 494
January project
NASA Headquarters name
changes.
affirmed The
sev-
intermediate
Saturn launch vehicle formerly called "Uprated Saturn I" was officially designated IB. The ground-outfitted orbital workshop, sometimes called
the
"dry
workshop,"
known as theSaturn to be launched by ferred
to as "Orbital
shop, " would shop.t95
would
henceforth
be
V Workshop. The workshop the Saturn IB, formerly reWorkshop"
be officially
named
and
"wet
Saturn
workI Work-
211
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 389
389. S-II stage on transporter, Seal Beach
The V
S-I] second mission
ruary
stage for the fifth Apollo/Saturn
left Seal
2 aboard
tothe _ITF, testing
Beach,
the USNS
where
before
California,
Point Barrow
the stage would
shipment
on Feben route
undergo
to KSC.
Also
static
on board
the ship was an F-I rocket engine. This combination load saved an estimated $6,000 in transportation
charges.
for inspection
The
at MAF,
transferred
to a barge
trip
496
to
_ISFC
MTF.
announced
astronauts, months
earlier, would
12-14.
Purpose
Marshall
would
O'Leary
stays
would
G.
chemist;
K.
Chapman,
and
212
would
B.
The
A.
Henize,
Llewellyn,
,_Iusgrave, and Donald
the new
group
at
with of
also see an en-
astronauts
all of them
be Robert
and Karl
William
February
the first such
including development
in space.
A.
cists;
six
of an orbital workshop -- a vesome day house astronauts for
visit the Center,
degrees,
of the
program
visit the Center
They
be
6 that 12 scientist-
to the space
work,
gineeringmockup hicle that would extended
for the remainder
be to acquaint
vehicles.
be unloaded
the stage would
of the meeting,
Center
the Saturn
would
on February
appointed
._ISFC, .would
F-I where
Anthony
with doctoral
Parker,
W.
and
T.
John
P. Allen,
Philip
England,
physi-
]._noir, engineer;
physiologist; L. Holmquest,
Brian
astronomers;
Joseph
who
William medical
F.
Story
E. Thornton doctors. 4s?
FEBRUARY The plex
AS-502
transfer
39 occurred
ever,
the
vice
Structure
to on
scheduled
Pad
A of Launch
Com-
February
6 at KSC.
How-
transfer
(MSS)
1968
to the
of the pad
Mobile
was
Ser-
delayed
be-
cause of highwinds. Reschedule was planned for February 9. No structural or water damage was reported on AS-502 because of movement to the pad .498
Also
on
tiation
February
6 NASA
of an additional
announced
one -year
the
contract
nego-
with
the
Boeing Company for operation of the Saturn V Development Facility at MSFC. The $5,782,750 incentive contract would continue through September 1968. The original award was made in September 1964. The Saturn V Development Facility, often called the "Saturn V breadboard, " would electrically simulate the operation of the Saturn V and its ground and electrical support equipment. Each step at the launch site, through liftoff and flight of each stage, simulated at the facility. 4s9
NASA announced
on February
a $3,226,374 supplemental Company's Saturn V systems tegration contract. be effective through
390. Removal oi S-II-4 #ore A2 stand at MTF 390 1
contract ingbIASA flight
and
7 that
added
extension would 1969. Under this for providsystems pre-
performance
analysis
for
Saturn V launch vehicles. Boeing all of the propulsion systems data
during the vehicles' for a complete analysis
extension
it had
clause to the Boeing engineering and in-
The contract December
post-flight
pulsion systems be conducted at This
be computer-
Boeing would be responsible with Saturn V propulsion
the first l0 would study recorded launches
could
performance. Boeing facilities brought
the
test firings and of Saturn V proAll
work would in Huntsville.
systems
engineering
and integration portion of Boeing's three-part Saturn V contract to a total of $194, 845,024. Meanwhile,
under
separate
remained responsible duction at MAF and at KSC. 500
agreements,
Boeing
for Saturn V booster profor launch support services
213
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
Transfer 502
of the
to the
layed
CHRONOLOGY
Mobile
pad,
Service
scheduled
because
of high
for
9.5ol
The
first full-duration in 1968 was
urday,
to date for the rocket gineers
and
flightversion
on Sat-
in the busiest year Space
static-fired
of the Apollo/Saturn
(S-II-4) for itsfull duration huge
firing at
completed
testing center.
technicians
de-
on Febru-
captive rocket
10, ushering
AS-
6 but
occurred
successfully
February
for
February
winds,
ary
MTF
Structure
en-
the fourth
V second
stage
of six minutes.
liquid-hydrogen-fuel
rocket
The
developed
an
equivalent thrust of more than one million pounds. A North American Rockwell crew conducted the captive
firingwiththe
talltower.
The
of
special
at
the
be
lunar i, 000
rocket
would fire,
be
would
carefully
separate
and
one
of a series
would
go through
before from
a flight
NASA
was
space
vehicles
second
stages
and
four
to
more -- four
first
from
certificate
scheduled
in 1968 S-IC
the
approxitaken
worthiness
MTF
in
engineers
evaluate
flight-certifyeight
Saturn
it would
KSC
measurements
issued.
check,
flight program.
before
in a 200-foot-
ground
later
landing
scientists
mately
stage
proving for
locked
firingwas the
Mississippi
manned
the
captive
checkouts
certified
and
rocket
stage
test-
Apollo/ of the
S-If
rockets.
502
By the middle of February NASA had announced that the first Americans on the moon would land in one
of five three-by-five-mile
selected Each
by NASA's
of the areas
Apollo would
The
first two sites selected
Sea
of Tranquility,
derstudy
The
the third was
sites were
from a choice
selected
data
214
to concentrate on
the specific
were
in the
in the Central in the Ocean from
on fewer sites.
of
eight un-
of 30 original sites.
lection of the five permitted neers
consideration.
by NASA
and the fourth and fifth were
Storms.
areas Board.
satisfy criteria in which
astronaut safety was the paramount
Bay,
landing
Site Selection
Se-
scientists and engiareas in preparing The
site selection
FEBRUARY-MARCH
board
studied
material
nar Orbiters craft. Lunar
obtained
1968
by unmanned
and soft-landing Orbiter returned
Lu-
Surveyor spacehigh resolution
photographs of all the sites and Surveyor provided close-up photos and surface data of the general areas in which they were located. The criteria considered
by
the
board
included
smoothness
of
the area, desirability interms of amount of propellant necessary for the lunar module propulsion systems, lighting as it concerned the best visibility
by astronauts,
landing
and the
Test
Facility
March 1968, with IC-2arrivedatMTF sembled
Sta£e at base of S-IC stand at MTF
slope
of the
area.
Mississippi
391.
general
nearby
ity.
Upon
arrival
men
promptly
began
considerable onMarch
at the
Michoud
of the began
1.
booster
preparations
the
month
test activity. It had been Assembly
Sas-
Facil-
at MTF, for
of
work-
placing
it
391
215
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 392
392.
/
ina teststand
fora
static firing in lateApril.
addition, S-II-4 would be placed in a separate stand,
where
it would
rated cryogenic This
test would
with cryogenic ulated
incorpo-
propellant and press urized to simflight loads.
to assure
high
second
stages and wouldbe
posed
manned
Meanwhile,
a newly
test late in March.
call for the LH 2 tank to be filled
maximum
designed
undergo
proof pressure
In test
Saturn at MTF
V
It would
be a test
reliability of Saturn scheduled vehicle
second
preparations
V
for all prostages.
proceeded
for
placing a fifth S-If second stage in another test stand at MTF onMarch 7, where it would undergo similar before bLSFC $11.1 28,
cryogenic
announced million
1969,
on
216
at
March
contract to
Sperry
neeringsupport design
proof press ure tests in April
static testing. 503
Rand
in applied MSFC's
7 the
extension
Astrionics
award until
Corporation research, Laboratory.
of
an
February for
engi-
testing,
and 5°4
S-IC {irin£,
MTF
MARCH 393.
AS-502
mission sequence
1968
393
394a. Installation o[ SIC-6 in test stand at MTF, b. Installation o[ S-II-5 into A-I stand at MTF
Dr.
von
Braun
502
is
successful,
third 394
on March
there
unmanned
Saturn
will
12:
be
V flight.
no
"If
AS-
need
for
a
,,505
a. NASA
announced
poration
t
commented
had
tailing
,
The
services
at
Huntsville
ler's
assignment
velopment As
a result
contract equipment
March
12 contract,
Apollo/Saturn Two fourth was
of the
V stands
all three
Test flight
stage
contained
and fifthApollo/Saturn holding the 7.5 million
that would
lift the
KSC
pad. 507
launch
engineering 5°G
test
were for
second
the
stands
filled first
stages
V rockets. pound
re-
Chrysler's
static
Facility
De-
engineering.
support and $14, 701,868.
of March
of IB
logistics
of this
Mississippi
Saturn
facility, systems
middle
the
1968. Chrys-
engineering
the
telemetry
at
pro-
covered
integration
and of
and
By the
engi-
IB
December
integration operation
for ground now totaled
and
Saturn
program
(Breadboard)
sponsibility,
to-
agreement.
covered test
Cor-
by MSFC,
through
a cost-plus-fixed-fee
support,
support
to the
awarded
It was
ground
Chrysler modification
ground
related
contract,
management,
bo
for
equipment
gram.
12 that
a contract
$5,779,884
neering
!
on March received
with time. for
the
A third
thrust booster
sixth Apollo/Saturn
V off its
217
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
MSFC announced engineers
CHRONOLOGY
on MarCh
and
scientists
would
two-day
Saturn
meeting engineers
on the following would discuss
shop reviews design review in December, view
I workshop
would
Center,
12-16
the
than
participate
design
review
100 in a
board
two days at MSFC. The results of previous work-
at MSFC.
represent
Kennedy
lets, and manufacturer
more
including the original engineering in May 196 7, a documentation study and a week-long crew station re-
February
ipants
i8 that
the
Space
Meeting
Manned
Center,
partic-
Spacecraft
NASA Headquar-
McDonnell Douglas Corporation, of the SaturnS-IVB stage. A work-
shop mockup had been used at MSFC for earlier design work. Chairman of the design review board was Leland Belew, manager of Marshall's Saturn/Apollo Applications Office. 5°8 On
}larch 19 NASA
released the findings of the
InvestigatingBoard appointed to examine and report on the June 8, 1967, rupture of a test tank at MSFC inHuntsville which resulted in thedeaths of two employees of Brown Engineering Company of Huntsville, a NASA subcontractor. NASA's release said in essence that the rupture of the testtank was apparently caused by pressure which exceeded the tank limits. The tank which ruptured was on loan to MSFC
from the McDonnell
Douglas Corporation. It was to have been used to test a quick-release manhole cover designed by MSFC for the liquidhydrogen tank of the S-IVB. T he board concluded that the tank burst at a pressure between 60 and 67 psig (pounds square inch gauge). The tank had withstood a pressure of 60 psigin a testconducted on May 24, two weeks before the accident. The investigationdisclosed a misunderstanding concerning the tank received from
McDonnell
Douglas.
A blueprint supplied
by McDonnell Douglas was interpreted as indicatingthe tank had been designed to withstand 150 psig. In fact, the tank in the form received at MSFC had a design limit of only 50.7 psig.5°9 NASA decided a 218
second
during
unmanned
the third flight
week of the
in March lunar
that
module
MARCH
1968
395 395. tion
S-IB-6 in preparato ,ship area at Michoud
would
not
flight
would
be
necessary. be
The
made
flight
tailed
evaluation
uary
22
from
a comprehensive
structural oughly
of
year,
The
decision
to
a
at
of the
S-II-4
pose
of the
test
S-II
stage's
indicated put
a team
through from
273,000
gallons
-423°F.) above
sure. liquid 36.18
the
of
Preliminary
to verify was
used
the
of early
data
The
stage
stage
with
results liquid
oxygen
about
five
per-
flight
indicated
of the
by for
hydrogen
tank
maximum
in the
test stage
liquid the
readings
purof the
pressure
super-cold
expected
The
of the
pressurized
proof
23.
manufacturer the
thor-
integrity
hydrogen tank pressure during psig. Instrument calibration
conducted nitrogen
and
also
successful.
filled
Data LM's
cryogenic
Evaluation
important
Jan-
the
were
the
this
NAR,
a de-
flown of
on March
was
the
vehicle.
a
test
cancel
followed
results
to certify
L,\I
launched
flight,
launch
conducted stage
the
Engineers
cent
test
was
MSFC. (at
IB
LH z tank. that
LM
examination
MTF
test
LM
first
Saturn
and ground analyzed. 51°
Workmen
was
an umnanned of the
atop
manned
in the
byaSaturnVvehiele. repeat
first
later
presthat
the
the test was checks were test. tank.
Liquid The
219
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY
tank was filledto approximately
80 percent of ca-
pacity with 65,000 gallons of nitrogen and pressurized to normal flightpressure. This was the first cryogenic program.
proof test conducted
in the S-If
All S-If stages scheduled to be used
on manned launchvehicles would undergo the cryogenic proof test at MTF to further certify the structural capability of the stage. The S-II-4 stage was the first of the so-called lightweight stages, being about 3,000 pounds lighter than the first three .511 The
schedule
for
launch
of the
AS-502
vehicle
slipped 13 days during March, primarily because of a problem with the A7-64 propellant disconnect. Two days of slippage were attributed to problems with the S-II-2 stage.Sl2 On
March
the
best
fer
S-IC
28
MSFC
interest" and
S-IB
bilities from the Huntsville .513 The
countdown
decided
of the stage
the
delivered
end
of March,
11 S-IVB Space
through
for April
stages
Center/MSFC
namics stage, S-IVB-500F Stage, S-IVB-500-ST MSFC S-IVB-201 through S-IVB-204, S-IVB-501
Facility
test launched
be in
to transresponsi-
Assembly
demonstration
to Kennedy
"it would
program
procurement
Michoud
(Apollo 6), scheduledtobe completed March 31.514 By
that
space
to
AS-502 4,
had
was
been (Dy-
Facility Checkout stage simulator, S-IVB-206, and
S-IVB-503N).
MSFC beganApril i, 1968, with announcement of the following contract awards : $2.l-million contract modification to RCA of RCA
IIOA computers
for continued support for use in checkout and
launch ofSaturn IB andSaturn V launch vehicles, bringing total contract value to $12.7 million;and $I.8-million follow-on contract to Sanders Associates, Inc., to provide logisticsand engineering support to Saturn V operational display systems at MSFC, bringing total value of the contract to $3.9 million.515 220
MARCH On April
3 MSFC
awarded
APRIL
IBM's
Space
Center a $1.3 million contract for and logistic support of instrument guided Saturn IB and Saturn V launch NASA successfully fromKSC's Complex a mission
to qualify
integrity
and
and spacecraft; characteristics; S-IVB/S-II
the
Saturn
propulsion and
V launch
compatibility
obther-
vehicle
loads and dynamic S-II/S-IC and ; verify
S-IVB
(optimum
vehicle
of launch
separations
(including
control
spare parts units that vehicles.Sl6
flights. Primary structural and
confirm launch demonstrate stage
Guidance
launched Apollo 6 (AS-502) 39A at 7:00 a.m. (EST) on
for future manned space jectives were to demonstrate mal
1968
operation
restart),
injection),
of
guidance
and electrical
systems ; evaluate performance of Emergency Detection System (EDS) in closed-loop configuration; and demonstrate mission support facilities and operations required duct, and CM recovery. second-stage
for launch, mission con_17 The launch vehicle
performance
was near
two of the five second-stage
J-2engines
prematurely, third-stage
nominal,
but
shut
down
causing the remaining secondengines to burn longer than planned
and .51s
As a result, the spacecraft and third stage entered elliptical parking orbit with 223.1-mile {395.1-kilometer) apogee, 107-mile (172.1kilometer) to re-ignite planned,
perigee. When on command NASA switched
the third stage failed after two orbits as
to an alternate
mission,
firing the Service Propulsion System (SPS) to place the spacecraft into trajectory with a 13,823mile (22,225.4-kilometer) apogee.51_ Since insufficient propellant remained after the extended burn,
a second
SPS
burn
was
not
attempted
the CM reentered at 22,376 miles per under the planned 25,000-mile-per-hour The spacecraft in the Pacific launch U.S.S. dicated
just rate.
splashed down 50 miles off target Ocean 9 hours 50 minutes after
and was recovered in good Okinawa. Preliminary that
and
hour,
four
of the
five
condition assessment
objectives
by the in-
were
at-
tained, even though the launch vehicle performance of the S-IVB restart and guidance control (optimum injection) were not fully successful, s2° 221
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
During a
the second
report
Apollo
CHRONOLOGY
week
containing
in April 51SFC
preliminary
6 flight. Although
completed
results
of the
the basic source
of the
difficulties had not yet been determined,
scien-
tists and engineers
speculated
carry-
ing cutoff commands
to the malfunctioning
were
interchanged.
formedas
planned
predicted
during
second
The
that wires
first stage
and stage thrust was
near that
satisfactorily through
the first-stage
boost, second-stage
early
of second-stage
First indications of anomaly temperatures
ignition, and
powered
were
on the main
engine's
yaw
third stage performed first burn stage
valve and its
prestart
igniter may
properly,
quately mixed dition. tudinal other
and
normal,
start
and
signal
the engine
the
did not re-
that a leak in one of augmented
insufficient or
propellant for the proper
inade-
start con-
Investigations were continuing on longioscillation of the vehicle. Guidance and instrumentation
formance,
An
systems
support
cated
major
no
functions,
and onboard
satisfactory.
areas
caused
the
engine
lines to the engine's
have
The
had appeared
the
Initial data suggested
the two propellant
pressure.
Although
conditions
receiving
opening
start.
decrease
satisfactorily through
and orbital coast.
the engine valves
actuator
flight.
the decreasing
oxidizer
control line on the fifthengine and steady in second
per-
the first portion of flight. The
stage had performed
portion
engines had
reported
TV
camera
intensive during problem
nominal
for such a blast-off.
telemetry
operation were
evaluation
the AS-502 areas, launch
per-
of ground
launch
indi-
although damage,
Considerable
many typical
damage,
and
not typical, involved both }Iobile Launchers (ML) elevators in the Apollo Emergency Ingress/ Egress curred
System
A technical tended
(PAD
& ML).
at ignition and/or
review
by about
administers,
of Saturn 140
scientists,
damage
oc-
liftoff. 521
launch
was held at _ISFC
participants investigated schedule of Saturn launch
222
The
during
vehicles,
engineers,
April
20-21.
the status and vehicles .522
atand The
flight
APRIL The
S-IU-205
Unit
Guppy ever,
at MSFC weather
of the
Super
was
loaded
aboard
the
1968
Super
on the morning of April 10; howconditions delayed the departure
Guppy
from
following morning. The April ll, and offloading Super Guppy was completed
MSFC
for
KSC until
the
Unit arrived at KSC on of the stage from the that same morning. 523
By the middle of April SA-205 had been erected atthe launch facility at KSC. Also, by the middle of April the AS-503 Launch Vehicle in the VAB at Kennedy Space CenterJ Michoud
personnel
gave
an
April
was 24
stacked
22 S-IC
pro-
gram briefing at Michoud to newly appointed Deputy Administrator for NASA, Dr. Thomas O. Paine, along with Dr. vonBraun, General nor, and other NASA representatives.525 The
llth
Saturn
IB booster
(S-IB-11)
O'Con-
was
suc-
cessfully fired by Chrysler onApril 23 at MSFC's Test Laboratory. The 1.6 million-pound-thrust booster was test-fired for a planned 145 seconds. The booster would be returned to the Michoud Assembly Facility the following month for static check. Meanwhile, another booster 12) was en route to firing at MSFC. 526
MSFC
by
barge
a post(S-IB-
for static
NASA announced on April 27 that the AS-503 launch vehicle would be manned and thatthe launch would
be
scheduled
for the fall. The
manned
flight would occur in the fourth quarter of 1968. Two previous flightsof the Saturn V had been unmanned. But on the basis ofdata thus far obtained from
the second
unmanned
flight, on
April 4,
NASA decided to plan and work toward a manned flightwith the third Saturn V vehicle. "However, we
will retain the option of flying another un-
manned mission if further analysis and ground testing indicatethat it is the best course, "said Maj. C,en. Samuel C. Phillips, Apollo program director. Before NASA made its decision, NASA and industry engineers worked virtuallyaround the clock to determine the causes, effects, and 223
SATURN
ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGY 396
39_. Apollo S lunar mission sequence, orbital mission !AS-503 !
solutions of several April
problems
4 flight. These
down
of two J-2 engines
of the Saturn
tion or "pogo
from
in the second
effect"
caused
the area
early
shutdown
began
with the
Number
launch
of the two
second
the cause,
the J-2
stage engines
"We
failure
and
to achieve
understanding
of all aspects of Saturn
224
operation. ,,527
an even
and
the
problems,
ground
will continue
ance and
are con-
effects, and solu-
engine
"Analysis
that the
fuel line in the
longitudinal vibration
said C,en. Phillips.
module
indicated
ignition system.
know
involving vehicle
fell away
by the time of the
failure of a small
2 engine
fident that we
material
developed
April 27 announcement
vi-
in the first stage;
of the spacecraft/lunar
Information
NASA
tions
by synchronous
engines
indication that some
adapter.
shut-
stage (S-II)
in orbit; a longitudinal oscilla-
bration of the five F-I an
in the
premature
V; failure of the third stage J-2 en-
gine to re-ignite
and
experienced
included:
more
"
testing
complete
V perform-
APRIL
1968
397
SATURN
V
ACHIEVEMENTS
397. 398. 399.
Saturn
V achievemerits
Saturn V Saturn V major contractors
398
OnApril
29NASA
awarded
year, cost-plus-fee
a $25.8-million,
contract
to Bendix
gineeringCorporation
for continued
and
major
operation
of the
portion
one-
Field En-
maintenance of
NASA's
Manned Space Flight Network, including 11 facilities of the 14-station unified 8-band network for Apollo. year
The
agreement.
contract
extended
the original two-
528
399
t
225
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BLANK
NOT
FILMED
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Various
personnel
have
contributed
generously
to the
preparation
of this
chronology. In the past eleven has had a variety of responsibility more detailed information may
years, first one organization and then another for its preparation. Therefore, seekers of well appreciate the names of people who have
contributed
At MSFC
to various
Development pioneers Falkowski,
versions.
Operations
and
Mr.
Harold
Mr. Price
in preparing the chronology's Mrs. Rowene Dunlap, Miss
early Ruth
Robert of
Sampson Industrial
of Research Operations
of Management Services Office, writing, editing, or researching
document.
Mr.
Of help
throughout
has
been
Division, Management we are also indebted
for
Services
Management
project Wise, edition
Office.
that appears for the first time also to MSFC summer student, summer
These
are Miss Teresita Sellers, and Mr. Fagan Thompson. has been Mrs. Ann Henley,
of 1970 working
Bill
Ziak
of the
Scientific
most
closely
Tech-
assistance, contractor
identified
Mrs. Kay Parrish, Mrs. Pat Vidler, Of unusual assistance in preparing editor at RCA. Much credit for
in this 1968 edition, must go to Mrs. Miss Rosemary Zarsou%who spent
Historifor the and
Services Office. For other to personnel of RCA, support people
were
versions. Later Mrs. Evelyn Jarrell, Mrs. Lois Ford, Mrs.
Betty Davis, and Mr. Leo L. Jones, all cal Office, have helped much in either nical Information including layout,
and
with
the
Mr. Dan the 1968 the Index,
Henley and much of the
on it.
227
PRECIIDL_G
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SATURN
MAJOR
CONTRACTORS
231
APPENDIX
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LAUNCH
OPIRATIONAL
SUMMARY
FLIGHTS
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232
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NOT
FIL,_IED
GLOSSARY
A AA
Apollo
Applications
program
AAP
Apollo
Applications
Program
ABMA
Army
AEC
Atomic
Energy
AEDC
Arnold
Engineering
AEROJET
Aerojet
AF
Air
All-Systems
Vehicle
Ballistic
Missile Commission
General
Center
Force
Non-flight
stage
American and
Development Corporation
used
flight-worthiness AIAA
Agency
to checkout
of systems Institute
of Astronautics
Aeronautics
AMR
Atlantic
AOMC
Army
Apollo
Project landing,
Missile
Range
Ordnance
Missile
designation also
Command
for
manned
spacecraft
for
lunar manned
lunar landing AS
Apollo/Saturn vehicle
ATM
Apollo
(Specific payload
with a number
Telescope
and
as AS-203)
Mount
B Battleship BP
Stage
Non-flight
stage replica
for engine
tests
Boilerplate
235
"Bug"
Lunar excursion module, the Apollo Spacecraft
landing unit of
C C&SM
Command
C-1
Saturn C-l, early nomenclature Saturn I
C-3
Saturn C-3, Saturn configuration considered but not used
C-5
Saturn
and Service Modules
C-5,
configuration
lunar landing Apollo Saturn V in February C-IB
Saturn
C-IB,
Cape
Canaveral
Launch site, Space Center
CCSD
Chrysler
CBTT
Common
Chance
selected
in 1962
orbital flights with full (renamed Saturn IB)
name changed in 1963.
Corporation bulkhead
for
(renamed
Space test
to Kennedy
Division
tank
Saturn
tank
Centaur
Vehicle probes
for support of unmanned and other missions
CM
Command
Compromise
Later changed to Promise - barge transporter for Saturn boosters
CPFF
Cost-plus-fixed-fee
CPIF
Cost-plus-incentive-fee
236
-Vought
adopted
flights 1963)
vehicle
for manned earth Apollo spacecraft
for
manufacturer,
Dallas,
Module
contract contract
Texas moon
D DAC
Douglas
DOD
Department
Downey
S&ID S-II
Aircraft
of Defense stage
and testing Douglas
Douglas
Dyna Soar
Air
DX
rating
component
facility
Highest
Corporation
spacecraft
featuring
fabrication
location
Aircraft
Force
flight
Corporation
for
"glider
national
earth
orbital
re-entry"
priority
E EDS
Emergency
EFL
Edwards
ESE
Electrical
EST
Eastern
Detection Field
System
Laboratory
Support
Equipment
Standard
Time
Aviation
Agency
F FAA
Federal
Fairchild F-1 FI_T
Engine
Stratos
Meteoroid Saturn Flight
satellite
V booster Rating
contractor (S-IC
stage)
engine
Tests
G GSE
Ground
Support
Equipment
237
H H-1
Engine
High
Water
Huntington
Saturn Project
Beach
I booster
(S-I
stage)
engine
SA-2 and SA-3 flight experiment _vater from the Dummy second released into the ionosphere. DAC S-IVB California
assembly
facility
in \_hich stage _vas
in
I IBM
International
Business
Machine
Corporation IO
MSFC
Industrial
Operation
organization IU
Instrument
Unit
J J-2
Liquid :_ydrogen S-II stages
JPL
Jet
Propulsion
engine
for
S-IVB
and
Laboratory
K K
Thousands
KSC
Kennedy Canaveral
Space Center, was Cape until November 28, 19_3.
Kiwi -B
Nuclear
reactor
of pounds
of thrust
k LaRC
Langley
LC
Launch
238
Research Complex
Center
LH2
Liquid
hydrogen
LM
Lunar
Module
LN
Liquid
Nitrogen
LOC
Launch
LOX
Liquid
Lockheed
Lockheed
LR-II5
First
Operations Oxygen Aircraft Liquid
(Pratt RL LI_-II9
Center
Company
hydrogen
type
& Whitney), I0-A3
early
designation
of
engine.
Proposed
uprated
(project
engine
was
LR-115
engine
cancelled)
LSSM
Local
LT V
Ling-Temco-Vought
LV
Launch
Vehicle
LVDC
Launch
Vehicle
Scientific
Survey
Module
Digital
Computer
M McDonnell
Douglas
Corporation
Douglas
Aircraft
McDonnell April
MA F
1967,
Corporation
Miehoud
Assembly
Martin
Martin
ME
MSFC's Laboratory
Michoud
merged
with
Corporation,
to become
Douglas
(formerly
Company
Aircraft
McDonnell
Facility Operations)
Company
Manufacturing
Engineering
239
Michoud Minneapolis -Honeywell
NASA's
Michoud
Minneapolis name
Operations
-Honeywell
changed
ML
hlobile
Launcher
MSC
Manned
Spacecraft
MSFC
George
C.
MSS
Mobile
Service
MSTS
Military
Sea
MT F
XIississippi MTO)
Incorporated
to Honeywell
Incorporated
Center
Marshall
Space
Flight
Center
Structure Transport
Test
Service
Facility
in Hancock
County,
(at
one time
Mississippi
N NAA
North
American
Aviation,
Inc.
NAR
North
American
Rock_vell
Corporation
(name resulting from merger of NAA, Inc. and Rockwell-Standard Corp., Sept.
22,
1967)
NASA
National Aeronautics Administration
NERVA
Nuclear
NOVA
Moon
direct
favor
of Saturn
engine
for
flight
and Space
RIFT vehicle
stage deferred
V
P P&VE
Propulsion Laboratory
PCS
Pointing
240
and Vehicle at MSFC control
system
Engineering
in
Pegasus
Meteoroid detection satellite
PFRT
Preliminary
P&W
Pratt & Whitney Company
Flight Rating Test
R R&D
Research
RCA
Radio Corporation of America
Rocketdyne
Division of North American
RIFT
Reactor-in-flight test stage (nuclear power)
RP-1
A kerosene-type fuel
RL10-A3
Reactor-in-flight test stage (nuclear
and Development
Aviation
power)
S S&ID
Space and Information Systems of North American Aviation
SA
Saturn (with number signifies a specific vehicle as SA-501) that does not have the Apollo command module attached.
S-I
Saturn I originallySaturn C-I first
Division
stage S-II
Saturn V second stage
S-IVB
Saturn V third stage
S-IC
Saturn V firststage
S-IV
Saturn I second stage
241
Douglas
SACTO
Aircraft's
Sacramento
Test
Facility Santa Susana
Santa
Monica
Saturn
Test
Site
J-2
engine
Douglas at Santa
I
IB
and S-IVB
Aircraft's Monica,
V
engines
J-2
A three engines J-2
fabrication California
propelling
engine
engines
third North
Seal Beach
plant
facility
second
propelling
propelling J-2
stage
American
stage,
propelling
at Seal
Aviation Beach,
Slidell
A computer in Slidell,
SM
Service
Module
SPS
Service
Propulsion
SRM
Solid
Rocket
Motor
SSFL
Santa
Susana
Field
SSO
Saturn Company
stage
stage
Saturn
Parcell
second
second
engine
SLCC
242
and
stage vehicle, with five F-1 propelling first stage, five
and a single
Sverdrup
stage
A two-stage vehicle with eight H-I engines propelling first stage and a single
Saturn
S-II
A two-stage vehicle, with eight H-1 engines propelling first stage and six RL-10
Saturn
for
Launch
Systems
Mississippi contractor
California
Control
center La.
Test
Assembly
Computer
that
serves
System
Laboratory
Office Facility
design
Michoud
U Uprated
Saturn
Nomenclature short
used
period
for
S-IB
for
a
of time.
V VAB
Vertical
VCL
Vehicle
Assembly Checkout
Building Laboratory
243
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Plan_
"Statement on Science
Jan.
9. 15,
before and
1963,
p.
Subcom-
Astronautics,
249
77.
MSFCSat. Off.,
Saturn
MPR_
Sept.
15 - Oct.
15 t 1962,
p.
4.
78.
MSFC
Sat.
Off.,
Saturn
MPR_
Nov.
12-
Dec.
14_ 1962 a p.
5.
79.
MSFC
Sat.
Off.,
Saturn
MPR_
Nov.
12-
Dec.
14_ 1962,
80.
MSFC
Sat.
Off.,
Saturn
MPR.,
Oct.
81.
MSFC
P&VE
"Saturn
SA-3
Division, H.
Report
82.
MSFC
Sat.
Off.,
Saturn
MPR z Nov.
12-
Dec.
14_ 1962_
83.
MSFC
Sat.
Off.,
Saturn
MPR_
15-
Jan.
16_ 1963,
84.
S. F.
Morea,
85.
MSFC
Test
Saturn
MSFC,
P&VE
Test
toDir.,
MPR,
Oct.
Dec. Division,
Division
MSFC,
16 - Nov.
interviewed
MPR,
Dec.
6. Dec.
teletype,
p.
p.
5.
28,
1963.
Jan.
12,
1963,
2.
86.
MSFC
Sat Off.,
87.
MSFC
Sat.
88.
MSFC
Saturn
Off.,
Test
Saturn
Div.,
Jan.
MPR_
Jan.
Division
15,
1963,
Jan.
12-
Feb.
MSFC
Sat.
Off.,
Saturn
MPR,
Jan.
17 - Feb.
15,
1963,
p.
10.
92.
MSFC
Sat.
Off.,
Saturn
MPR,
Jan.
17-
Feb.
15,
1963,
p.
10.
93.
MSFC
Feb.
15,
1963,
p.
6;
12j
Off., 1963_ 1963,
Saturn p. p.
6; 3.
MPR, MSFC
12 - Mar.
p.
1963,
91.
8,
Feb.
1963,
12,
Press
MPR,
15,
p. 3.
MSFC
Feb.
17 - Feb.
7.
90.
Mar.
Division
Release,
Jan.
Feb.
p.
Test
Sat.
, Test
MPR,
1963,
MSFC
18_
MPR_
17-
15,
89.
Div.
Saturn
17 - Feb.
Sat
Mar.
Off.,
Test
MPR_
MSFC
250
16,
3.
10.
p.
1962-
7,
Nov.
12_ 1962,
Mar. 12,
p.
Supplement,"
MSFC
Div.,
LOC,
1962,
Dr.
Off.,
Dir.,
Flight
12,
1962;
Sat.
Debus,
Nov.
1962;
p.
Kurt
16-
p. 3.
p.
3;
6.
12,
1963,
p.
6.
1963.
Jan. Test
17Div.
, Test
Division
MPR,
Feb Feb.
1612 -
94.
John
Chambers,
Office,
Saturn
interviewed
Feb.
16-
I/IB
on
Mar.
18_
Stage
Sept.
19,
1963,
p.
MSFC
Sat.
Off.,
Saturn
MPR_
96.
MSFC
Sat.
Off.,
Saturn
MPR
97.
MSFC
P&VE
P&VE
99.
100.
101.
P&VE 1963_
MSFC
Sat.
Off.,
Sat.
p.
152
Saturn
1963,
p.
Off.,
103.
MSFC
Test
Div.,
104.
MSFC
106.
107.
p.
9.
a Feb.
16-
Mar.
18_
1963,
p.
3.
Management
Office
p.
1.
Monthly
Hereafter
Office
MPR_
Progress
cited
as
16
-Mar.
Feb.
MSFC 15,
Sat. 172
Off.,
1963,
Test
16
MPR
2 Feb.
16-
Division
MPR
2 Feb.
16
- Mar.
182
-Mar.
1963.
18 a 1963,
p.
4;
Mar.
19
-
Mar.
18_
1963,
p.
8; Mar.
19-
Saturn
Mar.
19-Apr.
MPR_
MPR_
15_
Mar.
Apr.
16
12
1963,
pp.
- May
- Apr.
17,
12_
2-3.
1963,
p.
6.
18
1963,
p.
2; May
12,
1963,
p.
13. 3.
Div.,
Test
Division
Div.,
Test
Off.,
Saturn
P&VE
Div.
, MPR
Saturn
MPR,
-June
2 Feb.
Test
Sat.
Test
Office
16-Mar.
MPR
MPR,
Test
12
2 Feb.
Saturn
MSFC
MSFC
Management
8.
MSFC
May
MPR,
3.
Off.,
Sat.
MSFC
1963,
15 a 1963,
MPR
Saturn
1963,
MSFC
105.
18_
Engine
Saturn
102.
June
Saturn
1. Off.,
15_
MSFC Apr.
Off.,
Mar.
Management
Division,
p.
Sat.
MSFC Apr.
Sat.
(Sat.)
p. 1.
MSFC 15,
MSFC
Systems
16-
- March
Engine
and
Saturn
Feb.
Engine
16
Division,
963, 98.
Division,
February
1963;
MSFC
8.
95.
Report,
Manager,
Apr.
Div., 12,
for
MPR_
Division
1963,
2
12-June
- May
Test
MPR
MPR
May
16
172
Division p.
May
12 - June
a May
Mar. 11_ 1963,
MPR,
19
12 - June -
1963, p.
Apr.
Apr. pp.
15,
12,
1963
1963_
63-64;
p.
MSFC
2.
t pp.
5-7;
6;
MSFC
Sat
Off.,
5.
12
- May
12_
1963,
pp.
4-5;
5.
251
-
108.
MSFC
Sat
May 109.
17,
MSFC
Off., 1963,
NASA, and
111.
p.
P&VE
196_____3,pp. 110.
Saturn
Wilbur Harry
Mar.
19 - Apr.
15,
1963_
p.
4;
Apr.
16 -
16 - July
15,
4.
Div.,
Engine
Management
Office
MPR,
June
15-16.
NASA
July
MPR,
1963, S. H.
p.
Davis,
: "Report
1963,
MSFC
Procurement
Deputy of
Test
Report,
June
1963,
p.
E-12.2,
E-12.2. Chief,
Gorman,
subj.
Progress
Administrator's
Director
Activities Div.,
and
for Test
for Week
Contracts
Administration, Ending
Division
Office,
MPR,
May June
MSFC,
MSFC, 31,
memo,
1963,"
12 - July
12,,
to
May
31,
1963,
p.
22.
112.
MSFC
Sat.
Off.,
113.
MSFC
Sat.
Off.,
114.
MSFC
Sat.
Saturn Saturn
Off.,
July 17, 1963,
Saturn
MPR, MPR,
MPR,
May May
May
18
- June
18 - June
18 - June
17, 17,
1963, 1963,
17, 1963,
p. p.
3. 7.
p. 3; June
p. 4.
115.
MSFC
Sat. Off., Saturn
MPR,
June
116.
MSFC
Sat. Off., Saturn
MPR,
July 18-
117.
MSFC
Sat. Off., Saturn
MPR,
June
118.
MSFC
Sat. Off., Saturn
MPR,
July 18 - Aug.
14, 1963,
p. 5.
119.
MSFC
Sat. Off., Saturn
MPR,
July 18 - Aug.
14, 1963,
pp.
120.
MSFC
Test
121.
MSFC
Sat. Off., Saturn
122.
MSFC
Sat. Off., Saturn
252
Lab.,
Test
MPR,
MPR,
MPR,
18-
July 17, 1963,
p. 3.
Aug.
14, 1963,
p. 3.
18 - July 17, 1963,
p. 7.
July 12 - Aug.
July 18-
July 18-
Aug.
Aug.
12, 1963,
14, 1963,
14, 1963,
2-3.
p. 2.
p. 8.
pp. 2-3.
18 -
123.
Dr. Wernher yon Braun, subj. : "Reorganization
Director, MSFC, to Study - Announcement
Dr.
Director,
Wernher
subj.
:
yon Braun,
"Reorganization
Study
124.
MSFC
Test Lab., Test MPR,
125.
MSFC
Sat. Off., Saturn MPR,
126.
MSFC Sat. Off., Saturn Oct. 20, 1963, p. 8.
127.
MSFCSat. Off., Saturn MPR, 19- Oct. 20. 1963, p. II.
12_.
MSFC
Off.,
Saturn
129.
MSFC Michoud and 22.
Ops.,
130.
MSFC
131.
MSFC Test Lab., Acceptance 22, 1964, pp. 1 and 7-11.
132.
MSFC
133.
NASA, E-20.2;
Sat.
Quality Lab.,
MPR,
MPR,
Sept. 12-
135.
MSFC P&VE Lab., 1963 through January Lab., MPR for Dec.
136.
MSFC
Lab.,
3, "
Aug.
30,
15 - Sept. 18, 1963, p. 7.
Aug.
14 - Sept.
Dec. 16, 1963-
Sept.
19-
memo, 1963.
Oct. 12, 1963, p. 23.
Oct.
18,
1963,
p.
9; Sept.
19 -
Jan. 16, 1964, p. 9; Sept.
20,
1963,
July I- Dec.
Firing
of Saturn
Oct. 16 - Nov.
p.
2.
31, 1963, pp. 1,13,
Flight
MPR,
S-1-7,
cited 1963.
Nov.
12-
Dec.
Jan.
15, 1963, p. 6.
as MSFC
1963, p. Report,
Engine
October 1963, p. 15, 1963, p. 2.
Monthly Progress Report for 11, 1964, p. 35. Hereafter 12 - Jan. 11, 1964.
Test
Stage
Progress Report, September Office, Engine Monthly Progress
NASA Administrator's Progress Report, Sat. Off., Saturn MPR, Oct. 21- Nov.
Test
No.
Aug.
15, 1963, p. 6. Hereafter MPR, Oct. 16 - Nov. 15,
NASA, MSFC
Employees,
Hist. Data, July i- Dec. 31, 1963.
NASA Administrator's MSFC Engine Project
134.
to All MSFC
- Announcement
Hist. Report,
Test Lab., Test MPR,
Oct. 16 - Nov. Office, Engine
MSFC
Distribution "B, " memo, No. 2, " Aug. 12, 1963;
12,
Project
B-6.3;
Period December 12, cited as MSFC P&VE
1963,
pp.
31-32.
253
137.
MSFC Sat. Off.,
Saturn
MPR,
Engine Project Office, 1963, pp. 33-38.
138. 139. 140.
MSFC
P&VE
Lab.,
NASA Re_rt,
Launch Nov.
H-1
MPR
Operations 19, 1963,
U.S. Congress,
Nov.
Engine
for
Nov.
House, Comm.
12,
Project
12-
Center, 12.
p.
16 - Dec.
1963,
pp. 5-6;
Development
Dec.
Launch
11,
1963,
Plan,
p.
Operations
MSFC Dec.
1,
61.
Center
Progress
on Science and Astronautics, Authorizing
Appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 88th Congress, 2d Sess., Rpt. No. 1240, Washington, GPO, 1964, p. 15.
141.
Chrysler Saturn p.
J.
Corporation S-1/1B StageM.
Space Division Saturn I/IB
(CCSD), Vehicle
MSFC
Sat.
Off.,
Saturn
MPR,
Nov.
16-
143.
MSFC
Sat.
Off.,
Saturn
MPR,
Dec.
16,
144.
MSFC
Test
145.
MSFC
Michoud
NASA, B-12.2
NASA
147.
MSFC
148.
Dr.
Lab.,
Test
MPR,
Nov.
Kurt
Administrator's
Debus, Stage
149.
16,
Chairman, Incident
MSFC plement,
150.
254
1964,
P&VE p.
i5,
12 - Dec.
Dec.
pp. Lab.,
1 and Saturn
24,
p.
12,
16,
1964,
1963,
p.
6. p.
6.
8.
31, 1963, pp. 16-17.
Report,
December
1963,
p.
12, 1963 - Jan. 12, 1964, p. 29.
Investigating
- January
1963,
1963-Jan.
Progress
P&VE Lab., MSFC, "Investigation Apr. 27, 1964, pp. 1.3; MSFC Jan.
Dec.
Op., Hist. Report, July l-Dec.
Test Lab., Test MPR,
Systems
Review, 5, 1963,
L.-2.
142.
146.
Sixth Quarterly Program, Dec.
Committee, 1964, " May
11,
report, 1964,
"S-IV J.
B.
All
Gayle,
of S-IVAll Systems Vehicle Explosion," Sat. Off., Saturn MPR, Dec. 16, 1963
-
5. SA-5
Vehicle
Data
Book,
Flight
Report
Sup-
VI-1.
MSFC Saturn Flight Evaluation Working Group, I Launch Vehicle Test Flight (MPR-SAT-FE-64-15),
ResuT _+ :: ._f the Fifth Saturn Apr. 1, 1964, p. 5.
151.
MSFC
Sat.
152.
MSFC D. P.
P&VE Lab., SA-9 Saturn Herd and R. W. Schock,
Off.,
Separation 153.
DAC,
Saturn
and E}ection
Saturn
S-IVB
MPR,
Test
Annual
Feb.
16Vehicle P&VE
of Apollo Technical
cited
MSFC
Sat.
Off.,
155,
MSFC
Test
Lab.,
156.
MSFC Engine Project Office, MPR, Feb. 1964, p. 3.
157.
MSFC
158.
MSFC Test Lab , Test MPR, Feb. Saturn I/IB Program Office, Saturn
Jan.
Report,
BP-9,
as DAC,
1 - June
4.
pp. V-1 and V-5; Micrometeoroid
Report,
16 - Feb.
Jan.
Book, MSFC,
p.
July July
Saturn
13,
1963 S-IVB
16,
1964,
p.
30,
1964,
pp.
1964. - June Annual
8. 6-7.
F-l, H-I, J-2, and RLI0
Engines,
Test Lab. , Hist. Report, Jan. I - June 30, 1964, p. I.
September
30, 1964, p.i.
Off., Saturn 159.
Hist.
MPR,
1964,
Module
Progress
154.
16,
Data Lab.,
Boiler
1964_, pp. 36-37 and 95-96. Hereafter TPR, July 1963 -June 1964. Saturn
Mar.
MSFCSat.
Hereafter cited as MSFC
IfIB Prog. Report,
Off.,
Saturn
12 - Mar. 12, 1964, p. 38; MSFC L/IB Progress Report, March 16 -
MPR,
MSFC Industrial Operations, Progress Report, April, May, Annual TPR, July 1963 - June
Mar.
Feb.
16 - Mar.
MSFC
Sat. Off., Saturn MPR,
161.
Garland Deputy
G. Buckner, Chief, Purchasing Director, Administrative, MSFC,
Feb. 16 - Mar.
ities for Week Ending, January 24, Activities for Week Ending February Release, Mar. 31, 1964. MSFC Saturn 30, 1964, p.
163.
MSFC
I/IB 19.
Prog.
Off.,
Sat Off., Saturn MPR,
Saturn
Office, memo,
16, 1964, I,
Prog.
Feb. 16 - Mar.
Prog.
p.
6; Lee
Cropp,
IB, and V Quarterly 10; DAC, Saturn S-IVB
16, 1964, pp. 2 and 6. MSFC, to H. H. Gorman, subj. : "Report of Activ-
1964,"Jan. 24, 7, 1964, "Feb.
I/IB
IfIB
Sept. 30, 1964.
Draft of "Saturn and June 1964,"p. 1964, p. 148.
160.
162.
16-
Saturn
1964, and "Report of 7, 1964; MSFC Press
Report,
Mar.
16 - Sept.
16, 1964, p. 7.
255
164.
MSFC
165.
KSC
166.
MSFC Saturn
I/IB
30_
6.
167. 168.
Sat.
Off.,
Press
Saturn
Release,
1964,
p.
MPR,
Feb.
2,
1964.
Apr. Prog.
Off.,
Saturn
MSFC Executive Staff, Managerial Volume IX, Sept. 1964, p. 2. Lee
Cropp,
MSFC
Industrial
Quarterly Progress Saturn I/IB Prog. 1964, p. 2
p.
19;
16-
I/IB
Data
Michoud
Op.,
MSFC
Press
Release,
Apr.
14,
1964.
170.
MSFC
Press
Release,
Apr.
20,
1964.
171.
MSFC
172.
MSFC Saturn
Project I/IB
Flight SA-6,
Test Aug.
Project teletype, 173.
MSFC plement,
174.
p.
to Office
Lab.,
QPR, L/IB
Saturn
SA-6
Mar.
Management
Jan.
April
I, IB,
Data
1-
June
- June
Report,
and
30_
V
Flight,
Book,
No.
p.
32.
16 - Sept.
Book, Flight Evaluation of
Systems, Saturn E. R. Matthews, Report
1964.
1964,
Mar.
Vehicle Data P&VE Lab.,
Space
Flash
Vehicle
16 - Sept.
Informatio%
of "Saturn
Prog.
of Manned
Saturm/Apollo
Report_
and June 1964," p. 1; MSFC Report, Mar. 16- Sept. 30,
Systems and Associated pp. 1-5 and pp. 156-164;
: "SA-6
11.
Vehicle Saturn
NASA,
I
et a[.,
1, " May 28, 1964.
Flight
Report
Sup-
VI-1. Evaluation of Flight Test Propulsion Systems Saturn Vehicle SA-6, Aug. 28, 1964, pp. 1-5
and and
156-164.
MSC, "Weekly Administrator, Prog.
256
P&VE
Saturn
p.
Report_
Engine
Off.,
16_ 1964,
Draft
May, Prog.
MSFC P&VE Lab., SA-6 pp. VI-1 - VI-19; MSFC
KSC,
subject.
MSFC P&VE Lab., Associated Systems, pp.
175.
propulsion 28, 1964,
Office,
Office,
Prog.
30 t 1964, pp. 3-5; Report Supplement,
Center,
Hist.
169.
Engine
Prog.
Operations,
Report, April, Off., Saturn I/IB
MSFC
Mar.
Off.,
Activity Report, Manned Space Saturn
L/IB
prog.
June 7-13, 1964, " to Office. _t Associate Flight, NASA, p. 3; MSFC Saturn L/IB Report_
Mar.
16-
Sept.
30,
1964,
p.
6.
176.
MSFCSaturn IfIB Prog. Off., 30,
177. 178.
179.
1964,
MSFC
pp.
Project
Office,
Lee Cropp, MSFC Quarterly Progress
Industrial Report,
Saturn
Off.,
I/IB p.
MSFC
Hist.
1-
Dec.
Prog.
19;
MSFC Office,
31_
1964,
C. E. Catlado, X-53220, pp.
MSFC
183.
MSFC Sept.
184.
MSFC
CCSD,
Test
Lab.,
Saturn 30,
Michoud
185. 186. 187.
MSFC 1964,
Saturn p. 21.
Saturn
Hist. p.
I Mar.
16 - Sept.
Apr.
I/IB
Op.,
of Geo.
C.
1964,
Draft of "Saturn and June 1964,"
Prog.
Hist.
- June
Report_
Report,
Marshall
Space
NASA,
Mar.
teletype,
16 - Sept.
1--June Flight
16-
subj.:
Manager, Apollo Launch Schedule," Saturn
Stages Report,
Off.,
Sept.
13-14.
Op.,
Hist.
Off. , Saturn
Off.,
S-l-10
L/IB
Final
302
30_ 1964,
Center,
30,
July
1964,
1964,
Prog.
1 - Dec.
Report,
I/IB
Test
31,
Prog.
31,
Mar.
Report,
NASA,
Report, pp.
1964,
pp. 1-2;
Mar.
pp.
Sept.
Mar.
30,
16-
MSFC 1 Dec.
Space
C.
Marshall
Flight
Center,
10;
1964,
Sept.
Report, July 1964, TPR, July 1964.
of Geo.
16 -
2 and
DAC, Saturn S-IVB Monthly Technical Progress Hereafter cited as DAC, Saturn S-IVB Monthly Hist. Office, Hist. 31, 1964, p. 33.
to
1-2.
Report,
16 -
7.
Schedule,"
Off.,
Static
Dec.
p.
NASA TM to Apollo
Launch
Program 1964.
Monthly
July
Prog.
Saturn
1-
I/IB
Report,
"SA-7
Spacecraft July 22,
July
Saturn
pp.
I/IB
21.
I, IB, and V p. 1; MSFC
Mar.
Jan.
p.
27.
Hist.
I/IB
1964,
Saturn I/IB pp. 19-21.
QPR,
Report
P&VE Lab., H-1 Engine LOX Dome Failure, 1-4; Apollo Program Management Off., KSC,
Director,
Don Adams,
Engine
SaturnI/I]3MPR,
July 17, 1964, and KSC, subj. : "SA-7
182.
Prog.
Operations,. April, May,
Michoud
MSFCSaturnI/IBOff.,
Program
I/IB
14-15.
Engine
1964, p. 2.
Saturn
p.
30,
33.
July
257
188.
189.
KSC, Technical Progress p. 4; Lee B. James, Saturn et al.,
memo,
George
E.
NASA
Adm.,
subj.
Reports, Third and Fourth Quarter, I/IB Project Off., to Dr. Wernher
: "Pegasus
Mueller,
Schedule,"
Assoc.,
Adm.
subj.
: "Saturn
letter,
Dec.
for
Manned
MSFC
Saturn
1964, 136. 191.
p.
MSFC
and
194.
Saturn
Saturn
Prog.
I/IB
S-IVB
Off.,
Prog.
Semiannual
RL10engines,
July
1-
TPR,
31,
as NAA S&ID,
Don
Adams,
1-2;
MSFC
MSFC
S-II
CCSD, Test
Saturn
Stage
Saturn
Lab.,
I/IB
MPR, Stage
Hist.
Off.,
Oct.
Report,
Saturn
I/IB
Prog.
to
SA-7,"
Sept.
pp.
F-l,
Mar.
15,
30,
129 and
H-l, 1966,
J-2, p.
19.
System Division, Saturn 1964, p. 33. Hereafter
1964,
p.
Final
Static
July
16-
1964,
Report,
1965,
S-l-10
NASA,
Test,
Mar.
Sept.
Progress
Dec.
Flight
Report,
Monthly
Flight,
Report," Rpt. M-931-67Flight Evaluation Working
North American Aviation, Space andIaformation S-II Stage Monthly Progress Report, October cited
193.
Off.,
DAC,
Engine
C-I_ 192.
I/IB
29;
1964.
Space
I Development
Sept. 14, 1964, with enc., "Mission Operation 07, p. 1; F. A. Speer, Chairman, MSFC Saturn Group, "Saturn SA-7 Flight Resume. "
190.
15,
CY 1964. yon Braun,
1-
33. Test
Dec.
Report,
Report,
31,
1964,
pp.
Mar.
16-
Sept.
pp. 1-2. 3_),
196._.__4, pp. 21 and 30; MSFC Michoud Op. , Hist. Report, July 1 - Dec. 31, 196__.__4, p. 12; M. Johnson, Chief, Program Control Off., MSFC, to Dir., Apollo Program Control Off., NASA, teletype, subj. : "Weekly Notes,
195.
Saturn
I/IB,"
MSFC
Industrial
Jan.
4,
1965.
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465.
276
V
Saturn FEWG, Jan. 15, 1968,
and
467.
Saturn
41-42.
1§67,
1967, i967,
Report
1967.
7,
Aeronautics,
Off.,
pp. p.
31,
4,
V Weeldy
V Prog.
1967,
Aeronautics,
278.
"Saturn
Saturn
Dec.
454.
Report,
p.
to NASA
Nov. No.
29, 10,
pp.
Headquarters,
1967; 1 and
and 10.
PAO,
subj.,
"Saturn
"Marshall
Star,"
pp.
NASA,
Prog. V A8-501 xxxviii-xlii;
339-341.
V Weekly
Report,
Nov.
1967,
22,
NASA,
470.
Astronautics
PAO,
Press
1(.)67,
Vol.
Release 8,
A Chronology Dec.
31,
of the
Release
472.
MAF,
Historical
473.
PAO,
"Marshall
474.
Boeing
475.
NASA,
476.
MSFC Dec.
477.
Co.,
Report, Star",
Space
Saturn 1967,
4_i.
482.
483.
Space
i-
Dec.
31,
20, 1967,
Vol.
Jan. Dec.
Final Report Study
Flight
1967,
Star,"
Dec.
13,
Center,
Jan.
1 -
p. i.
8, No.
-Saturn
14, p. 3.
V Vehicle
--Summary,
and Aeronautics,
Off., Saturn
S-II Quarterly
Saturn
with
05-134081-i,
1967, p. 382.
V Semiannual
Frog.
Report,
July -
Report,
Prog.
Jan.
Jan.
I-
Report, I - Dec.
Dec.
Oct. 31,
- Dec.
1967
31, 1967,
1967,
p. III-l_
(draft).
pp. 30-40.
Off., Saturn
V Semiannual
Pro_.
Report,
July -
V Prog.
Off., Saturn
V Semiannual
Frog.
Report,
July -
Off., Saturn
V Semiannual
Pro_.
Report,
July -
pp. 76-79.
Saturn 1967,
V
Progress
Report,
p. 65.
Saturn 1967,
V
Frog.
p. 65.
Ancil Kent, Office,
"Marshall
Marshall
Solid Motor
Historical
1967,
MSFC Dec.
1967;
p. 23.
I_L_F, Historical
Dec.
5,
p. I-i.
V Frog.
NAA,
MSFC
C.
Division,
Diameter
and MTF,
4_0.
Dec.
365.
1.
George
Astronautics
MSFC
p.
p.
67-239.
18, 1967,
S&ID,
Dec.
13,
1967,
1967, p. 103.
NASA
260-inch
Aeronautics,
67-236,
No.
471.
Dec.
and
Contract
Contracts
MSFC
Saturn
1968,
p. I.
NAS8-15476,
Office,
V Prog.
MSFC,
Modification Dec.
Off., Saturn
42, Mission
Support
1967.
V Semiannual
Report,
Jan.
- June
277
484.
PAO,
485.
Interview
"Marshall with
Assembly 486.
Saturn
487.
Interview
Star,"
Vol.
Butch
Facility,
H.
17,
Report
with
Altho
16,
January
Chief,
10,
Contracts
1968. Office,
Michoud
1970.
No.
J.
No.
Aldridge,
July
V Weekly
8,
2,
January
Oberkirch,
10,
1968.
Contracts
Office,
3ISFC,
July
iT,
1970. 488.
Interview
with
W.
T.
Brown,
MSFC
Contracts
Office,
July
17,
1970.
489.
Interview
with
T.
B.
Burton,
MSFC
Contracts
Office,
July
20,
1970.
490.
MSFC Saturn June 1968.
491.
William
A.
Office, 492.
V Prog.
Geiger,
MSFC,
MSFC
Off.,
Daily
Jan.
Saturn
Log,
17,
V Prog.
Saturn
V Semiannual
Transport
Prog.
Branch,
Off.,
Saturn
V Semiannual
Prog.
1968.
493.
PAO
Press
Release
No.
68-18,
Jan.
30,
1968.
494.
PAO
Press
Release
No.
68-20,
Jan.
30,
1968.
495.
Working
Paper,
496.
MSFC June
497.
498.
MSFC
MSFC June
499.
E.
V Prog. p.
-
Logistics
of the
31,
1968,
Off.,
George
p.
Saturn
C.
_Iarshal[
Report,
Space
Jan.
-
Flight
9. V Semiannual
Prog.
Report,
Jan.
-
Prog.
Report,
Jan.
-
1-20. Release
Saturn 1968,
Dec.
V Prog. pp.
Press
MSFC-24I,
278
1-
Saturn 1968,
Milton 1968.
A Chronology
Jan.
Jan.
1968.
June
Center,
Project
Report,
No.
68-25,
Off.,
Feb.
Saturn
6,
1968.
V Semiannual
7.
Buchholz, Launch
Contract Systems
NAS8-5608 Branch,
(Schedule Contracts
2), Office,
,_Iodification MSFC,
Feb.
6,
500.
Milton E. Buchholz, Contract NAS8-5608(Schedule2), Modification MSFC-244, LaunchSystems Branch, Contracts Office, MSFC, Feb. 7, 1968.
501.
MSFCSaturn V Prog. Off., June
1968,
502.
PAO,
503.
MSFC June
504.
p.
Martin
505.
Minutes
506.
MSFC
507.
MSFC June
Star,"
Saturn
V Prog. pp.
F.
Vol.
of Combined Press
Saturn
V Prog. pp.
Report,
Jan.
-
14,
Report,
Jan.
-
1968.
Prog.
7,
Board March
Off.,
Engineering
Meeting, 12,
Saturn
Services
Division,
1968. March
12,
1968.
1968.
V Semiannual
Prog.
Report,
Jan.
-
5-38. Release
No.
509.
MSFC
Press
Release
68-46,
510.
PAO,
"Marshall
511.
Working
Paper,
Center,
Jan.
Star",
68-45,
Vol.
March
S-II
Dec.
31,
1968.
March
19,
1968.
8,
26,
March
No.
A Chronolo_y 1-
8,
of the
George
20, C.
1968,
p.
Marshall
1.
Space
Flight
1968.
Quarterly
ProGress
Report,
First
Quarter
1968,
I-1.
513.
Letter
514.
MSFC
515.
and
68-41,
Press
p.
Feb.
V Semiannual
March
Staff
Release
Saturn
21,
NAS8-20055,
MSFC,
MSFC
NAR,
No.
Saturn
Contract
508.
512.
8,
Off.,
Office,
1968,
Prog.
1-33.
Hirsch,
Purchasing
V Semiannual
7.
"Marshall
1968,
Saturn
from
Saturn
June
1968.
Royal
R.
Equipment,
O'Connor,
V Prog.
Nolley,
March
Off.,
Contract
Contracts
Office,
28,
1968.
Saturn
23515
V Semiannual
(Procurement
MSFC,
May
Prog.
Plan), 23,
Report,
Ground
Jan.
-
Support
1968.
279
516.
MSFC
517.
MSFC Saturn V Prog. June 1968, p. 11.
518.
McDonnell
Press
Release
Douglas,
No.
68-63,
Off.,
April
Saturn
Saturn
1968.
V Semiannual
S-IVB
Quarterly
Pro_.
Tech.
Report,
Prog.
Jan.
Report,
-
June
196__.p.s, 3. 519.
MSFCSaturn June
520.
521.
V Prog.
1968,
p.
MSFCSaturn June 1968,
p.
Saturn
VSemiannual
Prog.
Report,
Jan.
-
Off.,
Saturn
V Semiannual
Prog.
Report,
Jan.
-
13. V Prog. 15.
Apollo/Saturn Kennedy
Off.,
V Ground
Space
Center,
Systems May
522.
MSFC
523.
SaturnIB
524.
Saturn
525.
Saturn V First Sta_e Annual Company, July 1, 1968, p.
526.
Saturn
IB Notes
527.
Saturn
V Weekly
528.
NASA,
Release
280
Press
Release
Notes V Weekly
No.
Evaluation
23,
i968,
68-77,
April
I-IB-C731-68, Report,
No.
I-IB-3734-68, Report No.
April
No.
68-82.
15,
17,
1,
May
John
F.
1968. 16,
Rpt.,
May
AS-502,
5-21.
1968.
15, April
Pro_. 8.
Report,
pp.
1968.
Fiscal
1968. 2,
1968.
Year
1968,
The
Boeing
INDEX
A-I
engine,
47, 57
A-3
engine,
57
AA.
See Apollo
ABMA.
Applications.
See Army
Ballistic Missile
Advanced
Research
Advanced
Saturn,
AEC.
Projects
AEDC.
Energy
See Arnold Spacelines,
Aerojet
Aetron AKD
Allen,
Corporation,
Division, engine,
Center.
34
32 See
Edwin
E.,
200
P.,
212
USNS
Point Barrow.
testing, 67
American AMR.
Development
193
Joseph
"All-up"
2-7
Commission.
Engineering
Point Barrow.
Aldrin,
(ARPA),
Inc., 203
General
Aerospike
Agency
29
See Atomic
Aero
Agency.
Optical
Company,
171
See Atlantic Missile
Anders,
William
AOMC.
See Army
Ordnance
Apollo
204 Review
Apollo
Applications,
AAP-I,
173
AAP-2,
173
Board,
Mount
negotiations, Saturn
V
Missile
Command.
164
130, 142
Apollo Telescope contracts
mockups,
Range.
A. , 200
(ATM),
170, 171
197
procurement,
190
180, 201, 202
nomenclature,
173
payload integration, 191 S-II tests at MTF, 191 S-IVB
stage mockup,
176, 209
S-IVB Orbital Workshop, 176-178, 181, Apollo program, 13, 31, 106, 145, 155 astronauts,
150,
See Saturn
manned
lunar exploration
manned
lunar 23,
209, 218
200, 212
flight scheduling.
missions, nomenclature
188, 201,
landing 81, 89, changes,
IB and Saturn
program,
program, 132, 173
V.
190
164 134,
139,
164,
170,
173,
183,
197,
198
281
Apollo/Saturn
IB vehicle
AS-204,
163,
170,
174,
accident,
163,
164
first LEM
mission,
flight schedule, launch
with LM, Module
210
Apollo
170,
first LEM
mission
LM
AS-501,
flight, 198
174,
flight schedule,
Apollo/SaturnV
174
218, 219
164,
second
flight, 170
i mission,
first manned AS-206,
204
on unmanned
Lunar
198,
170
203,
of LEM
launch
AS-205,
198, 210
198, 203, 204 (original plans),
164, 203,
mission,
vehicle, 164,
192,
countdown,
170
204
198
136,
157
194, 196,
197
199
critical point, 199 erection
at KSC,
166
flight, critical point, i19 flight schedule, Memorandum "Rollout," AS-501
AS-515,
assembly,
AS-502,
203,
204
on success,
countdown
schedule,
erection
at KSC,
evaluation
from
217
support,
222
164, 198, 220 221
heat shield, A,
progression,
213,
189 214
203
198, 223
delivery
of instrument
flight schedule, test of command
unit, 207
223, 224 and service
vertical assembly,
282
Braun,
test, 220
systems
LC-39A,
to Pad
yon
221
207
of ground
test reentry
work
Dr.
220,
201
flight schedule,
transfer
183 213, 214,
demonstration
delivery
AS-503,
182,
198, 203, 207,
comment
192
203
extension,
197,
launch
192
194
through
contract
164, 183, of Agreement,
223
modules,
198
AS-504, 198, 200 crew, 200 flight schedule, 198 status of stage progression, 207 storage, 207 AS-505, 198 crew, 200 status, of stage progression, 207 AS-505 through AS-509, 198 flight schedule, 198 Apollo spacecraft, 25, 31, 39, 40, 58, 89, 92, 98, 126, 135, 138, 149, 151, 157, 181, 182, 183, 189, 192, 200, 201, 211 Apollo spacecraft 009, 134 Apollo 1, 163 Apollo 4, 173, 196, 197, 199 Apollo 5, 173, 209-211 Apollo 6, 220-222 Boilerplate spacecraft, 58, 61, 89, 100, 103, 107, 112, 113, 114 BP-16, 100, 103 BP-9, 112, 113, 114 BP-26, 107 CommandModule (CM), 17, 31, 40, 51, 76, 77, 81, 89, 100, 113, 122, 125, 151, 183, 197-200, 221 hunar Excursion Module (LEM). SeeLunar Module. Lunar Module (LM), 40, 51, 141, 157, 168, 170, 183, 197, 198, 200, 209, 211, 218, 224 Lunar Module 1, 174 Lunar Module 2, 211 Service Module (SM), 51, 89, 92, 93, 100, 108, 112, 149, 151, 197, 198, 200 Armstrong, Nell A., 200 Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA), 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9 Army
Ordnance
Arnold
Missile
Engineering
ARPA.
See
(see
Space
Atlantic Atlas,
Missile 4,
Research
Projects
Agency.
by name), Inc.,
Range
171,
177,
3,
43
178,
4,
5,
6
13, 196,
129, 200,
169, 209,
187, 212,
196 214
190 (AMR),
4,
5
Atlas
Centaur
ATM.
See
Atomic
Energy NASA
AZUSA
3, (AEDC),
also
Labs.,
(AOMC), Center
Advanced
Astronauts Astro
Command
Development
"C",
vehicle, Apollo
Applications,
Commision
Space
5
Nuclear
Apollo
Telescope
Mount.
(AEC) Propulsion
Office,
31
112
283
B-377
aircraft,
Bahamas, Baton
58
94
Rouge,
Louisiana,
Bay St. Louis, Bean, Alan L.,
Mississippi, 200
Bell
Aerosystems "pogo stick," Bendix Corporation, Bendix
Field
118 159
Company, 161 161 92, 170, 185,
Engineering
Birmingham,
Alabama,
Frank,
Brown
25,
26,
78, Carr,
Company,
California, (see also 27,
68, 71 Cape Kennedy
42, 47, 50, 53-55, 67, 70, 71, 77, 80, 96, 99, 127, 135, 136, 154, 164, 169, 171, 173, 178, 196, 207, 213 of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 5
200
Engineering
Canoga Park, Cape Canaveral
225
80
Boeing Company, 24, 33, 35, 105, 109, 116, 121, 125, 182, 185, 186, 190, 192, Booster Evaluation Committee Borman,
197
Corporation,
28,
(see
34, Cape
81, 82, 89, 92, Gerald P., 200 See Chrysler
Centaur
engine,
218
4, 78, 91, 189, Cape Kennedy),
30, also
CCSD.
175,
94,
35,
36,
Corporation
97,
Chaffee,
163
Roger
B.,
Chance-Vought, Chapman, Philip
105, 150, R.
CM.
Apollo
284
Kennedy 181,
50,
55,
Space
18, 61,
Center),
20, 63,
21,
22,
64,
65,
74,
77,
210
Division.
106,
107,
121
212 Space Division 71, 74, 75, 77,
E., Ohio,
Inc., 138
(CCSD), 23, 30-32, 78, 83, 86, 87, 90,
22,
101
spacecraft,
Sentry Quebec, Michael, 200
Compromise,
and
151,
49,
14,
42, 46, 48, 53, 58, 92, 93, 95, 97, 100-
107, 108, 111, 113, 116, 117, 120, 123, 124, 127, 131, 137, 152-154, 157, 159, 177, 185, 186, 193, 202, 207, 208, 217
Clarson, Cleveland, Coastal Collins,
31 K.,
Corporation 67, 68, 70,
See
48,
104,
Space
LR- 115, 14 LR-119, 14 17, 20, 24, 105,
102, 146,
43,
12,
138
F irst-generation Second-generation Centaur vehicle, 5,
Chrysler 62,
37,
Canaveral 95,
194, 209 3, 4, 5, 6,
26,
Command
211 27,
33
Module.
Conrad, Charles Jr., 200 Consteel-Ets-Hokin, 34 Contracts. Seecontractor firm names. Convair Astronautics, 13, 14, 20 Corps of Engineers. SeeU. S. Army Corps of Engineers. Courtland, California, 108, 109, 117 DAC. See DouglasAircraft Dallas,
Texas,
Debus,
Kurt,
Company.
31 143,
162
Director of Defense Research and Engineering, 5 Donn, William, 200 Douglas Aircraft Company (DAC) (see also McDonnell Douglas 10, 18, 20, 21, 25, 34, 35, 38, 42, 44, 47-50, 55-57, 61, 68,
70-72,
74,
126, 177
131,
125, 169,
77-79, 135,
Downey, California, DX (national priority Dyna
Soar,
5,
Edwards,
Air
136,
54, 80, rating),
Force
Base, 92,
Edwards Field Laboratory EFL. See Echvards Field England, F-1
Dwight Anthony
engines, 74, 85, 185, West
4, 88,
186, Area
Flight
Aviation Electric
139,
95,
143-145,
96, 150,
98,
100,
101,
104,
117,
153,
157,
158,
162,
168,
91, 99 8, 37
D.
74, 126
185
(EFL), 182, Laboratory. (President),
W., 24, 90,
27, 94,
186,
12,
202
13
212 25, 91,
27, 92,
33, 94,
36, 99,
38, 39, 49, 50, 51, 107, 126, 136, 143,
54, 63, 67, 71, 72, 144, 155, 156, 182,
189, 202, 212, 224 Test Stand, 186, 202
FAA. See Federal Aviation Fairchild Hiller Corporation, FEC. See Federal Electric Federal Federal
86-92,
60
California,
Eisenhower,
83,
14
12,
E-1 engines, 1 East Pearl River, Edwards
81,
Corporation), 63, 65, 67,
Agency. 89, 92, 97, Corporation.
Agency (FAA), 58 Corporation (FEC),
Readiness Test Saturn V vehicles.
(FRT).
See
103,
108,
112
145 Apollo/Saturn,
Uprated
Saturn
IB,
and
285
Gemini
5, 112
General
Dynamics/Astronautics,
General
Electric
George
C.
Alabama),
13, 80, 97, 178
Space
Flight Center
I0, 12-14,
16-36,
120-123,
162,
166-178,
185,
221,
223
West
Memorandum
Area
Glennan,
Richard
Gordon,
T.
186, 188-194,
84, $6, 90,
143-146,
196, 201,
150,
152-
202, 20S-213,
216-
192
202
200
Meteorite,
200
Virgil I. , 163
Ground
Support
Grumman
Equipment
Aircraft
engines,
3,
138,
144,
H-1
engine
H7-17,
(GSE).
Engineering
4,
6,
186,
7,
14,
See KSC,
Corporation,
16,
25,
42,
Uprated
Saturn
I and Saturn
V.
139
68,
83,
86,
104,
106,
123,
133,
135,
209
(H-100t),
5
155
Hagerstown, Haise,
Maryland,
Fred
Hayes
W.
97
Jr.,
200
International
Heimburg,
Corporation,
Karl,
Henize,
162,
KariG.,
Holmquest,
180
Beach,
176,
178,
Huntington
California,
188,
Assembly
Alabama, 13,
18,
76,
22,
25,
C.
43,
46,
66,
32,
122,
123,
125,
130,
207,
217,
218
118,
Gladys,
89
135,
119
57,
George
204, 143
49,
also
178, Hurricanes
Betsy,
131,
Facility,
(see
121,
Alma,
104,
136,
153,
157,
166,
169,
208
Beach
Huntsville,
212
211
Hubert,
Huntington
8,
L.,
Texas,
Humphrey,
175
170
212
Donald
Houston,
286
70, 71, 73-_2, 129-141,
162
Siberian
Grissom,
53-68,
12, 13
F.,
J.,
(see also Huntsvi[le,
125-127,
of Agreement,
Test Stand,
T. Keith,
Gordon,
Great
180-182,
(MSFC),
38-50,
92, 93, 95, 96, 98-118,
MSFC/KSC
H-1
Company,
Marshall
25, 130
145,
49, 159,
58,
70,
Marshall
166,
73,
75, 168,
78,
83,
Space 77, 169,
79, 171,
87,
Flight 88, 172,
98,
117
Center), 95,
111, 173,
115, 175,
IBM. SeeInternational Business Machines Corporation. International Business Machines Corporation, 76, 78, 89, 105, 118, 121, 129, 131, 168, 177, 201, 204, 207, 221 International Telephoneand Telegraph-Corporation, 145 IU. SeeSaturn IB andSaturn V Instrument Unit. J-2 engines, 10, 23, 30, 34, 36, 39, 46, 58, 67, 71, 78, 79, 88, 90, 91, 96, 99, 100, 110, 111, 114, 115, 123-126, 130, 137, 140-142, 145, 165, 169, 173, 175, 187, 196, 200, 202, 221, 224 155J-2 engines, 145 J022-1 engine, 175 James, Lee B., 171 Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), 65, 163, 178 Johnson, Lyndon B., 44, 201 JPL. SeeJet Propulsion Laboratory. Juno II, 7 Juno V, 3 Jupiter C, 7 Jupiter missile, 2, 3, 5, 7, 39, 47, 58 Jupiter program, 3 Kennedy, John F., 44 KennedySpaceCenter
70,
71,
74,
75,
82,
87,
100,
101,
102,
103,
104,
105,
107,
108,
109,
110,
111,
112,
113,
114,
116,
117,
120,
121,
122,
123,
124,
125,
130,
132,
133,
134,
135,
136,
138,
139,
140,
141,
143,
144,
148,
149,
151,
152,
154,
155,
157,
158,
212-214,
220,
221,
223
Launch 49,
Complex
50,
55,
(LC-34),
3, 112,
4,
101,
111,
37
(LC-37),
Launch
Complex
37
Pad
A-2
Launch
Complex
37
Pad
B (LC-37-B),
185,
78,
34
Complex
Launch
105,
110,
Launch
Complex
39
(LC-39),
Launch
Complex
39
PadA
Launch
Complex
39
Pad
104,
Kiwi-B,
32
Koppers
Company, See
5,
117, 27,
6,
12,
121,
28,
16,
122,
36,
37,
22,
126, 78,
29, 134,
113,
217, 34,
35,
149, 162,
218,
151, 168,
43,
47,
163 174,
210
100,
KSC.
(KSC),
Kennedy
111,
(LC-37-A-2),
112,
114, 40,
(LC-39-A), B (LC-39-B),
Inc.,
98,
Space
Center.
28 28,
139, 41,
49, 144,
47,
49,
123,
50,
55,
56,
61,
66,
68,
211 53,
63,
70,
78,
152,
199
221
96
191
287
LaHatte,
William
F.,
Lamont Langley
Geological Research
LaRC.
See
171
Observatory, 200 Center (LaRC), 23,
Langley
Research
Launch Operations Center, LC, Launch Complex. See LEM. Lenoir, Lewis
47 KSC.
See Apollo spacecraft, William B., 212 Research
Center,
Ling-Temco-Vought,
161
Center.
Lunar
65,
105,
Excursion
Module.
138
206
Llewellyn, John A., 212 LM. See Apollo spacecraft, Lunar Module. 185 Local Scientific Survey Module (LSSM), Lockheed Lockheed Long
Aircraft Missiles
Beach,
California,
Los Alamitos, Los Angeles, Lovell,
Corporation, and Space
A.,
34 See
Malon
Michoud
Construction
Marshall, Mrs. Marshall Space Center. Martin Martin
Company. Marietta
Mason-Rust Mather Air Mattingly, McDivitt, McDonnell
Aircraft
Corporation.
25
17 Survey
Module.
Assembly
Facility.
Company,
98
Management Services, Inc., 175 Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), Mars, 163 Marshall, George
Lockheed
200
LR-115 engine, 10, 14, 16 LR-119 engine, 10, 14, 16, LSSM. See Local Scientific LVDC/LVDA, 120 M-I, MAF.
See
88
154 California,
James
25, 127 Company.
C.
(General),
George C., Flight Center See Martin Corporation,
31,
65,
76,
81,
82,
George
C.
181,
182,
191,
218
12 13 (MSFC). Marietta 13, 20,
See
Marshall
Space
Flight
Corporation. 25, 127, 191
Company, 33 Force Base, 157 Thomas F. H, James A., 200
200
Aircraft Corporation,
139, 150
McDonnell Douglas Corporation (see also Douglas Aircraft Company and McDonnelI AircraftCorporation), 162, 168, 176-178, 181, 188, 196, 201, 208, 209, 218
288
McKeithen,
John
Mercury
J.,
Redstone,
Merritt
Island,
Michoud
Florida,
Assembly
Test
201 7 47,
Operations),
67,
70,
71,
(MAF),
28-31,
73,
75,
105,
108,
110,
159,
162,
168,
172-174,
204,
206-209, Ordnance
Michoud
Test
212,
Military
River,
Mississippi
Test
36,
132,
139,
Test Test
Stand, Stand,
166, 116,
A-3
Test
Stand,
122
B-2
Test
Stand,
155,
Test
179,
80,
82,
MSFC. gISTS.
See
157,
193,
201-
Facility. Assembly
Facility.
72
60,
98,
112,
147,
150,
152-160,
203,
207,
195 122,
191
165,
167,
169,
94,
45, 200,
191, 117,
93,
36,
194,
101,
113,
116,
163,
212,
117,
165-167,
214-217,
220
171
34,
35,
102,
36,
103,
45,
53,
58,
61,
62,
63,
70,
113
200 Spacecraft C.
Military
Center.
Marshall
Sea
Space
Transport Facility.
MTO.
See
Mississippi
Test
Operations.
George
E.,
141,
Story,
Flight
Center.
Service.
Test
164,
197
212
NAA.
See
North
American
Aviation.
NAR.
See
North
American
Rockwell
NASA.
154,
190,
146,
Mississippi
NASS-19,
152,
189,
112
George
F.
147,
186,
144,
See
Musgrave,
138,
191,
MTF. Mueller,
66, 102,
89
Manned
See
62, 100,
184,
34,
(MTO),
89,
D.,
Alabama, See
58, 99,
132,
Michoud
29,
189,
Operations
Edgar
MSC.
54, 95,
182,
(MSTS),
184,
transponder,
Mobile,
53, 92,
108
140-142,
A-1 A-2
Mitchell,
48, 90,
129,
Assembly
See
(MTF),
178,
78,
46, 87,
Michoud
168
Facility
122,
73,
45, 86,
and
223
Michoud
Service
170-175,
MISTRAM
220,
42, 83,
Plant
24
Mississippi
Mississippi
215,
53,
Transport
Minneapolis-Honeywell,
121,
181,
(MTO).
Ordnance
41, 82,
115-125,
See
satellite,
Sea
36, 80,
179,
213,
Operations
Micrometeoroid
78,
111,
Plant.
(Michoud
33,
77,
104,
Michoud
96
Facility
Corporation.
145 See
National 22, 70-73,
National
Aeronautics
Aeronautics 23,
25,
and 27-31,
77,
78,
80,
125-127,
and
Space 35,
37,
84,
86,
89,
123,
152,
154-157,
160,
191,
193-197,
199-203,
Administration.
Administration
34,
121,
Space
39, 92,
(NASA),
41,
42,
96,
103-106,
129,
130,
132,
133-136,
161,
163,
164,
170,
206-209,
211,
171, 213,
46,
5-10,
52,
53,
108,
138-142, 173, 214,
13, 55,
109,
14,
62,
112-114,
144-146, 177,
217,
178, 218,
16,
67,
17,
68, 118,
148-150, 180-182,
221,
185-
223-225 289
National Aeronautics andSpaceCouncil, 4 National Vehicle Program, 4 Navy, 44 Nerva, 32 NewOrleans, Louisiana, 28, 29, 33, 36, 42, 47, 53, 98, 153, 168, 186, 189, 206, 207 North
American
Aviation
(NAA),
(see also North
American
tion), 3, 14, 28, 30, 31, 67, 83, 88, 91, 96, 99, 142,
145, 153-156,
El Toro
Facility,
Rocketdyne
166,
123,
175,
125, 126,
136-138,
Corporation),
200,
5, 22-24,
Ocean
of Storms,
214
Office
of Manned
Space
Brian
T.,
141,
Palaemon 157,
108,
American
110
Apollo
Flight. Applications,
S-IVB
Orbital
Workshop),
209-211
109,
111,
117 23,
25
New
14, 16, 18, 21, 26, 61,
162, 173, York,
III, 163
Robert
A.,
181
212
California, (barge),
105, 108,
200
Canal,
290
148
(see also North
199
Parker,
River
Space
General),
Panama
Pearl
(NAR),
143, 213
159,
Pasadena,
American
54, 55, 58, 66, 67, 71, 74, 76,
116, 122,
(OMSF),
201,
(Major
(barge),
Palisades,
(see also North
223
also
188,
103,
Pacific Ocean, PadA,
Flight
(see
Don
113,
(S&ID),
212
181,
(barge),
187, 193,
219
of Manned
Workshop
Ostrander,
35, 44, 46,
Corporation
(General),
Office
176-178,
182, 186,
113-115,
29, 34, 36
Edwin
See
155,
Iii,
175
Nova,
O'Leary,
144, 145,
Division
108-110,
209, 214,
Corporation,
O'Connor,
140,
Systems
Rockwell
Aviation), Northrop
195, 207
203, 209
and Information
American
127, 138,
i, 3, 4, I0, 24, 33, 38, 39, 42, 46, 49, 54, 67, 70,
80, 91, 99, 102,
Orion
189, 193,
Corpora-
54, 66
Division,
Rockwell
Orbital
102, 126,
187,
106, II0,
Space
OMSF.
182, 186,
71, 74, 78, 83, 86, 88, 90, 91, 93, 99, 104,
194, 202,
North
175, 180,
Rockwell
178 147, 172,
173,
182, 184
115,
118, 122,
125,
Pegasus, 89, 92, 93, 95, 97, PegasusA,
97,
100,
103
108,
110
Pegasus
B,
97,
Pegasus
C,
112,
Pensacola,
Florida,
Phillips, Plan
C.
"pogo
stick,"
161
Point
Barrow
(barge).
Port
Canaveral,
Port
Canaveral
Poseidon
Florida,
Project
High
10,
16,
Water,
37,
Johnson.
See
See
33,
Radio
114,
126
197,
223,
224
Corporation Service
47,
program,
See
121 65,
109,
112,
185
John
F.
110,
B.
116,
118,
119,
132,
134,
138
of America. (RCA), Radio
78,
127,
Corporation
129, 175, 220 of America.
117 test), 25, 32
See North
American
Maryland,
Rockwell-Standard Rogallo
179
3
(reactor-in-flight
Rockville,
174,
2, 7, 39
California,
Rocketdyne.
172,
Lyndon
63,
of America
Redstone Richmond,
Kennedy,
Company.
missile,
Barrow.
39, 61,
Johnson,
Corporation
Redstone
RP-I
113,
48
President
(barge),
30, 58,
See
Promise
Point
152-154,
20,
(aircraft),
Kennedy.
Aviation,
Rocketdyne
Division.
129
Corporation.
paraglider,
Knot Victor,
RP-I,
106,
USNS
129,
President
Rose
112,
116
122,
Guppy
RIFT
110,
135
Locks,
& Whitney,
Pregnant
RCA
General),
See
(barge),
Radio
108,
114
(Major
224
RCA.
103,
46
effect,"
Pratt
101,
21
Samuel V,
"pogo
113,
100,
See North
American
Rockwell
Corporation.
14 211
4 tank, 5
Rust
Engineering
Ryan
Aeronautical
S&ID.
See
S-IB-D/F,
Company, Company,
North 87,
S-IU-5,
63
S-IU-8,
83,
102,
S-IU-9,
75,
77,
American 92,
93, 104,
85,
175 14 Aviation,
97,
Space
and
Information
Systems
Division.
100
105 86
291
S-IU-10,
95,
I00,
Ii0,
Iii,
S-IVB-D, 98, I00 S-IVB-F, 117 S-IVB Orbital Workshop contract advanced
113
(program),
versions,
conversion of liquid design review, 181,
(see
also
SA-II
58,
62,
(Saturn
SAT-01, SAT-02,
68,
I,
93,
S-I-5
108,
tank
into a space
117,
122,
160, Beta
162, 163, Complex, Beta Beta Beta See
123,
flight
Santa
Monica,
Santa Santa
Susana, Susana
126,
qualification
36,
139,
38, 144,
47,
49,
55,
150
53
140,
142,
143,
145,
146,
148,
154,
173,
174,
178,
182,
188,
193,
204,
207
159,
Test
47,
(proposed
vehicle
stage, 18 C-3 vehicle
56,
69, 74, (SSFL),
61,
63,
207
86
78, 101, 108, 109, 46, 88, 114-116,
123, 126,
175 See
Santa
Susana
configuration),
2,
(concept),
7,
(concept),
22,
See Saturn IB.
Field 5
I. 14, 24
C-3/Apollo (configuration), 23 Saturn C-5 vehicle. See Saturn V. Saturn C-IB.
157-
Facility.
49,
California, 36, Field Laboratory Stand, Facility.
65,
220
California,
C vehicle (concept), 4 C-1 vehicle. See Saturn C-2
Test Facility. 21, 32, 43, 47, 50, 54-57, 61-63, 100, 103, 104, 108-111, 113, 115,
139,
Saturn Saturn
292
V),
136,
136,
B, 4 Booster
Saturn
Saturn 135,
test),
See Sacramento (SACTO), 20, 86, 88, 95, 98,
Saturn Saturn
S-II
and
117,
178
166, 169, 55, 62
Sacramento
Delta 2A Test Susana Test
Saturn
115,
177,
I Test Stand, 61, 62, 117, 123, 139, 140, 142, 163, 194, H Test Stand, 54, 56, 57, 104 HI Test Stand, 62, 104, 109, 117, 122, 160, 173, 188
San Salvador, 94 Sanders Associates,
Santa
109,
station,
9 9
Sacramento Test Center. Sacramento Test Facility 67, 68, 70, 72, 75,
SACTO.
Applications)
188 hydrogen 218
mockup, 209, 210, 218 quick-release manhole cover, 218 S-IVB stage (see also Saturn I, Saturn IB, 57,
Apollo
16,
17,
19, 22
Laboratory.
128, 175,
129, 187,
146 202
Saturn
I vehicle, 49-51,
7,
53,
103,
104,
188K
engine,
Block
8,
55, 109,
I,
110,
47,
S-I/S-IB,
S-I
7,
49,
144,
146,
35,
37,
39-41,
89,
90,
43,
46,
92-95,
47,
97,
100,
53,
66,
150
67
S-I-8,
58,
66,
68,
S-I-9,
60,
65,
75
109,
21,
22,
26,
28,
29,
30,
104,
105
32,
50,
test,
53
59
48,
75,
55,
71,
86,
76,
92,
77,
93,
83,
95,
95,
97,
110
61
7,
49,
19,
71
56,
stage,
18,
qualification
S-I-7,
8,
10,
50-52,
12,
15-18,
55-58,
20-22,
61,
24,
26,
65,
72,
77,
82,
47,
50,
52,
57
27, 86,
31, 87,
32, 89,
34-36, 93,
102,
43, 105,
138
RL10
engine,
30,
121,
engine,
17,
RL10-A-3
engine,
20,
138
RL10-A-1
RL10-A-3-3
engine, 56,
61,
63-66,
S-IV-6,
61,
65,
67,
S-IV-7,
68,
75,
77
S-IV-8,
86,
95,
104,
S-IV-9,
88,
89,
100
stage,
67,
10-14, flight
vehicle,
SA-3vehicle, vehicle, SA-04
vehicle,
100,
68 68,
74,
81
105 104,
109,
16,
18-20,
24,
qualification
test,
13,
19,
26,
29,
19,
26,
31,
35-36,
38,
39,
45,
34, flight
vehicle, SA-05
39,
111
44
vehicle, SA-01
95,
47
121
S-IV-5,
S-IV-10,
SA-6
84-87,
111
63,
11 flight
S-I-6,
47,
S-IVB
16, 108,
53-55,
S-I-D5,
SA-5
31,
82,
55
14,
105,
S-I-10,
S-IV
8,
104, SA-
SA-4
138,
22,
81,
3
S-I-5,
SA-2
114,
19,
101
stage, 71,
SA-1
18, 71-77,
55
19,
S-3D,
12-14,
64-68,
46
19,
BlockII, Contracts
10,
60,
qualification 39,
flight
47,
55,
66,
qualification 45,
63,
67,
68,
26,
30,
37,
110
18
33-35,
37,
43, 49,
50,
test,
29
68,
29,
55
71-73,
test,
29
70,
76,
48
48
81
77,
81,
82
293
SA-7,
67, 82, 86, 88
SA-8,
53, 74, 75, 77, 83, 84, 95, 97, 104, II0
SA-9,
53, 74, 75,
77, 84, 89, 92, 94, 95, 97, I00,
SA-10,
I0, 75, 77, 84, 95, III,
SA-DI,
23
SA-D5, 9
SA-TI,
13, 14, 16, 23
SA-T2,
16, 23-26
SA-T3,
31, 35
SA-T4,
4O
SA-T4.5, ST-124 IB
40, 46 guidance
program
71,
Uprated
(also
Saturn
173,
78,
115-117, 120, AS-9, 100
123,
79,
Saturn
92-99,
132,
134,
141,
126,
121,
122,
126,
132,
134
132,
136,
138,
139,
144,
AS-203,
138,
139,
144
AS-204,
155
AS-205,
155
AS-206,
157
AS-208,
140 also
stage
44,
101,
50,
51,
104-107,
144,
149,
63-65, 109,
150-152,
67, 110,
68,
113,
154-158
151
contracts)
101
modification
for
ground
modification
for
support
scheduling,
Improvement Instrument
173,
support
engineering
110A
equipment,
computers,
201
115
S-IU-200D/500D
(See
alsoSaturnV),
100,
101,
122
S-IU-200F/500F
(See
also
103,
108,
111,
S-IU-200S/500S
(See
S-IU-200S/500S-II
also
(See
S-IU-200S/500S-III S-IU-200V,
217
220
177
supplement,
engine,
and
of RCA
200
Studies, Unit
contract J-2
149,
43,
101
S-IVB,
flight
I) , 39,
90,
AS-202,
(see
198
81-87,
AS-201,
S-I/S-IB,
I)
197,
Uprated
73-76,
Contracts
294
82, 83
changes,
IBvehicle 70,
system, (also
nomenclature Saturn
103, 104
114
47, 49, 54
SA-T,
Saturn
112,
(See 90,
96
SaturnV), SaturnV),
also also
Saturn Saturn
100, V), V),
103, 121, 153
105, 123
116, 116,
117 120,
153
S-IU-201,
122
S-IU-202, S-IU-205
134
shipped S-IU-205
to KSC,
through
storage,
223
S-IU-209
203,
204
S-IU-209 assembly, S-IU-210
188
fabrication S-IB
stage,
and assembly
operations,
188
62, 67, 70, 81, 90, 99, 100, 106,
131, 132,
134,
137-140,
144,
I13,
120,
122, 123,
127,
157
contract conversion
to CPIF
engineering extension,
agreement,
support
services,
185, 203
negotiations,
207,
order
for H-I
to NAA
procurement S-IB-I,
193 209
208 rocket
responsibilities,
engines,
186
220
74, 78, 83, 86, 92, 93, 95, 97, I02,
105-108,
I16,
I17, 121,
124, 139 S-IB-2,
76, 86, 92, 93, 97,
S-IB-3,
97,
S-IB-4,
97, 121,
S-IB-5,
124, 135,
S-IB-6,
144, 157
I00, i17, 124,
120, 122,
125,
131, 149
132 138
173
154
acceptance
test firings,
long-duration
169
test, 169
post-firing
checkout,
162
post-static
checkout,
188
shipped S-IB-
123,
137
arrival at Michoud, S-IB-8, S-IB-9
Ill, 113-115,
If8,
to MSFC,
159
static firing, 166 10 acceptance
firing,
arrival
at
arrival
at MSFC,
post-static shipped static
178
Michoud,
182 173
modification, to MSFC, firing,
188
168
180
295
S-IB-
11
firing, S-IB-12
223
assembly shipped S-IB-202, S-IB-203, S-IVB
stage,
and checkout, to MSFC, 223
204
138 138 43,
51,
65,
67,
70,
71,
96, 98, 100, 101, 104, 106, 135, 136, 144, 157, 158 contract negotiations, procurement, S-IVB-201, S-IB-201
108, 109, S-IB-204
delivery S-IVB-202,
to KSC/MSFC, 117, 122, 123,
S-IV B-203,
123
delivery erected
117,
220 125
LC-37,
174
to KSC/MSFC, on LC-37, 162
storage, S-IVB-208
220
168
acceptance S-IVB-209
firing, to SACTO,
pre-static static S-IVB-210
115,
126, 136 through S-IB-209
storage, 204 S-IVB-206, 157 de-erected from
airlifted
76,
110,
159 169
checkout, firing,
162
188
storage, 188 S-IVB-210 through S-IVB-212 at Huntington Beach, 204 SA-201 vehicle, 78, 120, 126, 134 SA-203 SA-204
vehicle, 144 (see also Apollo/Saturn
flight schedule, 203, 204 test of lunar module, 168, SA-205 (see also Apollo/Saturn
296
78,
115,
207 196
104, through
S-IVB-204, S-IVB-205
74,
109,
IB,
AS-204)
185 IB,
AS-205)
120-122
79, 117,
81-83, 120,
87, 121,
90,
92,
123,
126,
erected at KSC, 223 shipment to KSC, 211 storage, 188 SA-206 (see also Apollo/Saturn IB, AS-206) checkout, 162 first LM mission (original plans), 168 storage, 188 storage of instrument unit, 168 SA-208 storage, 188 SA-209 stages of development, 188 SA-210 development, 188 SA-211 static firing, 202 SA-212 flight schedule, 204 storage, 204 Saturn I/IB Operations, 171 Saturn V program nomenclatures changes. SeeApollo Program. Saturn V vehicle, 31, 34, 35, 37, 39-42, 44, 46-48, 50, 51, 53, 59, 60, 6467, 70, 71, 73-82, 84, 85, 87, 88, 90-94, 96-99, 101, 102, 105, 107, 109, 110, 112-117, 121-123, 125-127, 129-136, 139-141, 143, 148, 150155, 157, 158 AS-504, 140 contract operation of development "Breadboard" Facility, 213 modification for support of RCA ll0A computers, 220 stage procurement, 164, 182, 183, 190, 213 transportation, 203 F- 1 engines first flight, 199, 200 flight schedule, 180, 200 Instrument Unit (IU) contract supplement, 201 S-IU-200D/500D (see also SaturnIB), 100, 101, 122 S-IU-200F/500F (see alsoSaturnIB), 103, 108, 111, 116, 117 S-IU-200S/500S (see alsoSaturnIB), 100, 103, 105, 116, 120, 153 S-IU-200S/500S-II (see also Saturn IB), 121, 123 S-IU-200S/500S-III (see also Saturn IB), 153
297
S-IU-500F,
135,
S-IU-500FS,
136
104,
S-IU-500
ST,
S-IU-500V,
105,
105,
S-IU-501,
111,
131,
vertical S-IU-502,
132,
135
113 I17,
130
151,
154-155
assembly,
160
155
transported
to KSC,
170
S-IU-503 checkout
and systems
delivery,
testing, 158
207
S-IU-504 completion, storage,
204
207
S-IU-505 assembly,
207
post-manufacturing Integration,
204
182, 183
Liftoff switch, S-IC
checkout,
stage,
192
30, 33, 35, 36, 39, 43, 45-48,
65-67,
69-71, 143,
B-2
Stand,
prime
procurement,
LOX
stage
(see also S-IC-T),
190
sensors,
199
effect," 224
program
briefing,
recovery
and
223
reuse,
186
S-IC-I,
130,
133, 134,
S-IC-2,
130,
143
arrival
at KSC,
transported
152,
160
169
to KSC,
S-IC-3,
153,
154, 155
S-IC-4,
116,
130
acceptance
298
contractor, 164, 196, 220
214
depletion
"pogo
126-129,
165
Systems
contract
checkout,
115,
154, 155
Battleship/All
Boeing,
58, 60-63,
74, 76, 77, 80, 84, 85, 89, 94, 99, 107,
134-136, Test
50, 51, 53-55,
167
firing test, 178
arrival
at Michoud,
arrival
at MTF,
173
181
165, 166,
192
S-IC-5 acceptance
firing
storage, transported S-IC-7
test,
to MTF,
F-1 S-IC-8
engine,
186
F-1 S -IC - 9
engine,
186
F-1 engine, S-IC - 16 through
186 S-IC-25
procurement,
196
static static
194
207
tests, 203 test stand,
184
173
Test Complex, 192 test stand adapter, 160 S-IC-D (dynamic test stage), arrival at MTF, 175 SAC-F, 136 S-IC-S
(fuel
S-IC-T
(Battleship/All
tank),
98,
105,
99,
122,
stage),
115, 121, 125, 130, 145, 154, firing, 165, 166, 169, 192 removal from B-2 Test Stand,
S-II
to MAF,
transported
to MSFC,
129
112
Systems
transported
128,
65,
96,
98,
104,
107,
108,
157 171
172 169,
174
stage, 14, 16, 17, 20, 22, 28, 30, 36, 39, 44-46, 51, 52, 54, 55, 58, 62, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72, 74, 76, 80, 82, 84, 88, 91, 94, 96, 98, 99,
101,
102,
108-110,
112-114,
l16j
129, 131, 133, 139-141, 143, battleship stage, 169, 173 transition and full duration
144,
Battleship checkout, contract
165
Test 214
modification, North J-2 engine, propellant S-H-I,
No.
193,
American 187, tanks,
041,
146,
147,
testing,
120,
121,
153,
123,
126,
128,
154
181
195
Rockwell,
166,
167
224 181
104, 113, 124, 125, arrival at KSC, 160 dismantled
117,
at KSC,
check
146, for
147,
150,
"hairline"
155,
158
cracks,
180
299
static
firing,
191
transported
to KSC,
verification
tests,
vertical S-II-2,
159 187
assembly
110,
162
at KSC,
125
arrival
at
MTF,
departure
165
Seal
mated
Beach,
to S-IC-2,
schedule
163
189
slippage,
220
static firing, 172-175 transported
to KSC,
vertical assembly S-II-3,
113, 146,
acceptance
179 189
at KSC,
156
firing, 195
arrival at MTF,
191
checkout,
191
departure
Seal Beach,
189
static firing, 195 S-H-4 arrival
at MTF,
cryogenic
proof
static test
200 pressure
firing,
test,
216,
219,
220
214
stand,
MTF,
207,
217
S-H-5 cryogenic
proof pressure
departure
Seal Beach
shakedown
inspection,
test stand,
MTF,
217
test stand,
MTF,
217
test, 216
to MTF,
212
207
S-H-6
S-II- 11 through contract
S-II-25
modification,
Stage Manager, static test, 203
195
158
S-II-A 2, 122 S-H-D,
101
S-H-F/D,
155
S-H-F,
102,
S-H-S,
97,
S-H-S/D, S-H-T, S-H-T/D,
300
109,
133,
99-102, 109,
135,
136,
155
121,
122,
131,
108
101,
120
131,
I10,
120, 132,
143
139,
140,
141,
142,
144
S-IVB stage, 34, 42, 48, 51, 82, 88, 89, 92, 94, 96, 103, 109, 110, 112,
126, 129,
battleship
135,
stage,
136, 139,
141, 153
186
contract negotiations,
208
procurement, delivery,
J-2 engine, restart,
196, 208
220 115, 187
199, 221
S-IVB-500F
(Facility Checkout
delivery, S-IVB-500-ST,
92, 131,
circular
orbit,
136, 140,
113, 117,
136
135,
departure
143,
SACTO
135,
142,
148
197
tests,
vertical assembly
S-IVB-503,
111,
220
verification
S-IVB-502,
103, 104,
136
delivery, S-IVB-501,
Stage),
220
153,
187 at KSC, 145,
160
146
to KSC,
166
154
Beta I Test Stand,
163
destruction,
160, 162,
173
nomenclature
changes,
162
S-IVB-503N acceptance
firing,
nomenclature S-IVB-504,
135,
161,
162
157
nomenclature post-static
178
change,
change, checkout,
162 204
S-IVB-504N acceptance arrival
firing, 194
at SACTO,
nomenclature
182
change,
162
change,
162
S-IVB-505 checkout,
166
nomenclature post-static storage,
checkout,
204
207
301
S-IVB-505N nomenclature S-IVB-506
change,
162
nomenclature
change,
162
post-manufacturing (Dynamic Test
SA-500D
Configuration SA-500F, 141, SA-501,
checkout, 204 Vehicle), 157
I testing, 143, 154
169
155
erection
at KSC,
vertical SA-502
assembly,
183 160,
erection at KSC, 189, flight schedule, 164 SA-503, 146 arrival at MTF, on dock Static
test
Systems Systems Television
stands,
Soar,
program,
111, 207,
191 203 217
9,
10,
R., 200 California,
113, 212
120,
64,
101
6 Committee 200 36,
121,
44,
124,
Sea of Tranquility, 214 Seamans, Robert C., 34, 141 Silverstein Committee (Saturn
(the
51,
125,
52,
Silverstein
66,
133,
146,
Vehicle
Builder,
Space
Task
Space Spaco,
Technology Incorporated,
Sperry
Rand
SSFL.
See
302
47 Group,
25 Laboratories, 175
Corporation, Santa
Susana
174, Field
Inc.,
71,
25
216 Laboratory.
Committee),
76,
147,
Evaluation
Slidell Computer Facility, 36, 54 Slidell, Louisiana, 41, 42, 54, 206 SM. See Apollo Service Module. Smith
162
5
Saturn System Study, 4, Saturn Vehicle Evaluation Schweickart, Russel L., Scott, David Seal Beach,
201
and performance briefing, 177 Engineering and Integration requirements, broadcast satellites, 176
Saturn-Dyna Saturn
at KSC,
181
80, 150,
84, 163,
Committee),
7,
101-104, 180,
7,
189,
10
10
108, 200,
110,
Steel
Executive,
117,
120
St. Louis, Missouri, 150 Sullivan, Long, and Hagerty of Birmingham, Super Guppy, 135, 136, 139, 143, 148, 151, 178,
182,
Surveyor, Sverdrup
202,
215 Parcell
Tennessee
6,
170,
174,
26,
98,
102,
166
37
2, 3
Thornton, William E., Teir, William, 171 Titan, Titan
168,
35
21,
3 engine,
80 162,
223
Company,
River,
Thor missile, Thor-Jupiter
209,
Alabama, 154, 157,
212
4, 5 C, 5
TRW Systems, Inc., Tullahoma, Tennessee, Uprated
Saturn
U. S. Army USNS
Point
I.
153, 13,
See Saturn
Corps
118,
72,
129,
169
IB.
of Engineers,
Barrow,
USS Bennington,
178 117,
28,
111,
113,
48,
121,
53, 133,
60, 147,
62,
63,
189,
89, 212
199
USS Okinawa,
221
Van Nuys, California, 129 Vice-President Humphrey. See Humphrey, Hubert. Vice-President Johnson. See Johnson, Lyndon B. Vitro
Corporation,
174
von Braun, Dr. Wernher, Voyager, 163, 178 Washington, Webb, James Webb, Mrs.
1,
D. C., 81 E., 23, 25, 1131 James E., 201
West Area F-1 Wheeler Dam,
Test Stand, 21, 26, 33,
White,
H. II,
Witchita,
Edward Kansas,
Colonel
186, 37
22,
25,
64,
93,
171,
180,
202,
217,
223
201 202
163
50,
Wisconsin, University Worden, Alfred M., Wyle Laboratories, Yarchin,
12,
55
of, 200 130
Sam,
154
158
303
MSFC--RSA,
Ala
