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... contract for engineering support services for H-1 rocket engine H-1 engines to power Sat­urn IB 1st stage. Contract covered period of July 1967 through June 1971. ''(MSFC Release 68-9 ...

... launch vehicle. With 1st ''(S-IC)'' and 3rd ''( S-IVB )'' stages and instrument unit of Sat­urn V, vehicle could place up to 158,000 lb in low earth orbit. Varying the ... docking adapter, plus Apollo Telescope Mount and Apollo CSM and three-man crew. Three Saturn IB vehicles would be required to do same job. Vehicle could resupply space sta­tions and ... Corp.'s Rocketdyne Div. for continued production support of J-2 engines used on Saturn IB and Saturn V boosters. Modifications would improve engines' versatility. ''(MSFC Releases 68-264, 68-266 ...

... earlier than March 21 in second unmanned test flight of command and service modules on Sat­urn V. First Saturn V had been launched successfully Nov. 9, 1967. Ten-hour, earth-orbital ...

... week it would be mated with lunar module adapter and prepared for mechanical mate with Sat­urn lB launch vehicle. In Apollo Saturn 503 project, radar lock-on problem in Lunar Module ...

... were evalu­ated. LM 3, delayed in checkout, would be flown in 1969 on fourth Sat­urn V with CSM 104 since preliminary studies had indicated many Apollo objectives scheduled for later ...

... module ''(CSM)'', Apollo 8 CSM would undergo combined systems tests at KSC early in week. Sat­urn 503 had been erected on mobile launcher. ''(Text)'' USAF announced actions to reduce FY 1969 ...

... old S-IVB, third stage of the Saturn V, and second stage of the S-IB with the first, I guess, restartable engine in the line, was coming through. They said ... read it up to Jack Swigert. First they brought all the pieces over, and we sat there, right on the floor, in front of the CAPCOM console, spilling out into the ... than I remember it, but that’s typical. My recollection of it is that Chris sat us down and said basically, “Now, listen guys. You’ve had a lot of disagreements ...

... March; Hairline cracks were discovered in the holddown fittings on the fins of the Saturn IB launch vehicle scheduled to launch the Apollo spacecraft in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in ... affect flight, but were in an area carrying the weight of the vehicle as it sat atop the mobile launcher. During a later inspection, cracks also were found in the remaining ... of the fins were replaced by 15 March. The spacecraft was placed atop the Saturn IB on 17 March and replacement of the remaining two fins was completed by 19 March ...

... would fly and fly well, and we were going to fly that on the Saturn IB, not the Saturn V. In other words, it was a two-stage rocket, but it ... your thing, I'll go do mine." I called in my top guys, and we sat around a table, and they were excited about it. I didn't expect that from ... off of his office. I think it was his office. At any rate, we all sat down, and I think Gilruth said some words that we had a plan on flying ...

... about like 2,000 your chances of getting hit by a lightning bolt." And Kraft sat there and he listened to that. And he says applause , "Out of the mouths of ... if we had gone with the Apollo hardware, continued the Saturn IBs, we'd have come up with a dumb Saturn IB or something like that, which all the guys were looking ...

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