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>In article <23DEC199220530775@judy.uh.edu> wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa
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>Gov writes:
>>>...The third stage (S-V) was to have been powered by 2 RL-10
>>>engines. The S-V was NOT Centaur...
>>
>>I can buy the four engines and 6 engine bit, but according to document I
>>have found here and the Book "Rocket Scientist" and Medaris's " Cound down
>>to Decision" These were desginated the Centaur, although I will go back and
>>look and make sure of this just in case.
>
>Stages To Saturn, NASA SP-4206, says specifically that the original S-V
>stage was to be a Centaur.  It was slated to be the third stage of the
>Saturn C-1 and the fourth stage of Saturn C-2 (which used the S-IV as
>its third stage and was to have a new second stage).  (The Saturn C-3
>moved things up one more stage, with the S-IV as fourth stage, the
>C-2's second stage as third stage, and another new second stage.)
>
>Incidentally, it's important to understand that (a) there were a lot
>of Saturn designs proposed -- the same study that nailed down the C-1-2-3
>scheme also recomended against proceeding with the Saturn A-1, A-2, and
>B-1, and those were only the most promising survivors from a longer list --
>and (b) the same name sometimes got re-used (there were at least three
>different vehicles named "Saturn C-3" at various times).
>
>>>The 'C' designation was dropped somewhere along the way, with the Saturn C-1
>>>becoming simply Saturn 1...
>>
>>According to Dr. Sthulinger and Konrad Dannenburg the C-1 designation was
>>dropped when the CSM was put on the stack...
>
>The C designation was dropped in Feb 1963 when terminology was tidied up.
>Before then, it was a C-1 whether or not it had Apollo hardware on top.
>--
>"God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
>       -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
>
   Thanks for all that info, my copy of 'Stages to Saturn' is in a box
   stored away somewhere. But wasn't this discussion REALLY about
   whether Centaur actually flew on a Saturn? Not was it intended to,
   but did it ever go up on one? It didn't, to the best of my knowledge.
   
   -Brian
   
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