Stages to Saturn : a technological history of the Apollo/Saturn launch vehicles /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bilstein, Roger E (Author)
Format:	Government Document Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington : Scientific and Technical Information Branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1980.
Series:	NASA history series. NASA SP (Series) ; 4206.
Subjects:	Saturn Project (U.S.) > History. Project Apollo (U.S.) > History. Projet Saturne. Project Apollo (U.S.) Saturn Project (U.S.) Saturn launch vehicles > History. Saturn (Fusées) > Histoire. Saturn launch vehicles. Raketten. NASA. Government publications History.

Table of Contents:

I. Prologue. Concepts and origins
II. The Saturn building blocks. Aerospace alphabet : ABMA, ARPA, MSFC
Missions, modes, and manufacturing
III. Fire, smoke, and thunder : the engines. Conventional cryogenics : the H-1 and the F-1
Unconventional cryogenics : RL-10 and J-2
IV. Building the Saturn V. From the S-IV to the S-IVB
The lower stages : S-IC and S-II
From checkout to launch : the quintessential computer
V. Coordination : men and machines. Managing Saturn
The logistics tangle
VI. Step by step. Qualifying the cluster concept
The giant leap
VIII. Epilogue. Legacies
Appendix A : Schematic of Saturn V
Appendix B : Saturn V prelaunch
launch sequence
Appendix C : Saturn flight history
Appendix D : Saturn R and D funding history
Appendix E : Saturn V contractors
Appendix F : Location of remaining Saturn hardware
Appendix G : NASA organization during Apollo-Saturn
Appendix H : MSFC personnel during Apollo-Saturn.