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Article #6453Centaur on Saturn
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 23:38
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 23:38
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In article <72444@cup.portal.com> BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) writes:
> ... 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.
What this discussion was originally about is perhaps debatable... :-)
No Centaur ever flew on a Saturn; the S-V stage was dropped from "mainline"
Saturn planning in June 1961, although Saturn/Centaur persisted until
1965 as the intended launcher for the original Voyager project. The first
four Saturn I launches (and possibly the fifth, it's not entirely clear
from my references) carried dummy S-V stages with the right shape and
mass, but none was ever real hardware.
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"God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
-Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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