About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 78. Chapters: SM-65 Atlas, Alan Shepard, Apollo 14, Mariner 9, Europa, Centaur, Apollo Lunar Module, Luna 18, Luna 19, Soyuz, Mars 3, Mars 2, Saturn V, Corona, Proton, Black Arrow, N1, LGM-25C Titan II, KH-9 Hexagon, Edgar Mitchell, Soyuz 11, Salyut 1, Kosmos 428, Solrad 10, Black Brant, Stuart Roosa, Titan IIIC, DF-5, Vladislav Volkov, Poppy, Soyuz 10, Kosmos 461, Kosmos 459, Kosmos 426, Kosmos 458, Kosmos 467, Kosmos 408, Kosmos 455, Kosmos 421, Kosmos 453, Kosmos 435, Kosmos 393, Kosmos 394, Kosmos 423, Vladimir Shatalov, Kosmos 400, Prospero, Viktor Patsayev, Jumpseat, Kosmos 419, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Soyuz-L, Canyon, Kosmos 440, Kosmos 391, Aleksei Yeliseyev, Ariel 4, Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Soyuz-M, Long March 1. Excerpt: The Saturn V (pronounced "Saturn Five") was an American man-rated expendable rocket used by NASA's Apollo and Skylab programs from 1967 until 1973. A multistage liquid-fueled launch vehicle, NASA launched 13 Saturn Vs from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida with no loss of crew or payload. It remains the tallest, heaviest and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and still holds the record for the heaviest launch vehicle payload. The largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, the Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, with Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM as the lead contractors. Von Braun's design was based in part on his work on the Aggregate series of rockets, especially the A-10, A-11, and A-12, in Germany during World War II. To date, the Saturn V is the only launch vehicle to transport human beings beyond Low Earth Orbit. A total of 24 men were flown out to the Moon in the four years spanning December 1968 through December 1972. The ori...
