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This artist's concept illustrates how the Saturn V dynamic test vehicle appears when fully erected inside the dynamic test stand. Configuration One testing began after completion of stacking. The vehicle was vibrated by electrodynamic shakers to determine the bending and vibration characteristics the vehicle will be subjected to during flight.
The Saturn V reached 400 feet per second (120 m/s) at over 1 mile (1,600 m) in altitude. Much of the early portion of the flight was spent gaining altitude, with the required velocity coming later. The Saturn V broke the sound barrier at just over 1 minute at an altitude of between 3.45 and 4.6 miles (5.55 and 7.40 km). At this point, shock ...
Description and Performance Of The Saturn Launch Vehicle's Navigation, Guidance And Control System (PDF). NASA TN D-5869. NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center, Saturn V Flight Manual SA-503, 1 November 1968; NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center, Skylab Saturn IB Flight Manual, 30 September 1972; M.M. Dickinson, J.B. Jackson, G.C. Randa.
S-IC-T was planned as a test rocket only and not to be used in the later Apollo program. The Saturn V rocket was used in the Apollo program to depart Earth's gravity. S-IC-T, like all following Saturn V's S-IC rockets used five Rocketdyne F-1 engines. The Rocketdyne F-1 engine was first tested in March 1959 and delivered to NASA in October 1963.
Saturn V: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center: NASA Apollo 4: NASA Highly elliptical orbit Test Saturn V and Apollo Command Module reentry: 9 November 20:37: Successful LTA-10R NASA Highly elliptical orbit Instrumented dynamic Simulation payload: 9 November: Successful Maiden flight of the Saturn V. LTA-10R remained attached to the S-IVB upper stage ...
The S-IVB (pronounced "S-four-B") was the third stage on the Saturn V and second stage on the Saturn IB launch vehicles. Built by the Douglas Aircraft Company, it had one J-2 rocket engine. For lunar missions it was fired twice: first for Earth orbit insertion after second stage cutoff, and then for translunar injection (TLI).
Apollo 4 was the first flight of a Saturn V. At the time, it was the largest launch vehicle to ever attempt a flight. [34] This mission was the first time NASA used "all-up" testing, requiring that each stage of the launch vehicle work and that the vehicle carry a working spacecraft; a decision that goes back to late 1963. [35]
Apollo 6 (April 4, 1968), also known as AS-502, was the third and final uncrewed flight in the United States' Apollo Program and the second test of the Saturn V launch vehicle. It qualified the Saturn V for use on crewed missions, and it was used beginning with Apollo 8 in December 1968. Apollo 6 was intended to demonstrate the ability of the ...