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| Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles
by Roger E. Bilstein Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the development of space flight in America and the course of modern technology, this reprint edition includes a new preface by the author providing a 21st-century perspective on the historic importance of the Saturn project.
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Contents
Foreward
Preface
Acknowledgements
Preface to the 2003 Edition
I. Prologue
1. Concepts and Origins
II. The Saturn Building Blocks
2. Aerospace Alphabet: ABMA, ARPA, MSFC
3. Missions, Modes, and Manufacturing
III. Fire, Smoke, and Thunder: The Engines
4. Conventional Cryogenics: The H-1 and the F-1
5. Unconventional Cryogenics: RL-10 and J-2
IV. Building the Saturn V
6. From the S-IV to the S-IVB
7. The Lower Stages: S-IC and S-II
8. From Checkout to Launch: The Quinessential Computer
V. Coordination: Men and Machines
9. Managing Saturn
10. The Logistics Tangle
VI. Step By Step
11. Qualifying the Cluster Concept
12. The Giant Leap
VII. Epilogue
13. Legacies
Appendix A--Schematic of Saturn V
Appendix B--Saturn V PreLaunch--Launch Sequence
Appendix C--Saturn Flight History
Appendix D--Saturn R&D Funding History
Appendix E--Saturn V Contractors
Appendix F--Location of Remaining Saturn Hardward
Appendix G--NASA Organization During Apollo-Saturn
Appendix H--MSFC Personnel During Apollo-Saturn
Notes
Sources and Research Material
Index