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    The Saturn-Shuttle was a preliminary concept of launching the Space Shuttle orbiter using a modified version of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket...
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    lifted with just a handful of launches. The Saturn-Shuttle concept also could have eliminated the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters that ultimately precipitated...
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    bus tours of the spaceport. The "Space Shuttle Atlantis" exhibit contains the Atlantis orbiter and the Shuttle Launch Experience, a simulated ride into...
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    III family and also the Space Shuttle. In 1959, NASA's Silverstein Committee issued recommendations to develop the Saturn class launch vehicles, growing...
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    required that the Space Shuttle have a 4.6 by 18 m (15 by 60 ft) payload bay. NASA evaluated the F-1 and J-2 engines from the Saturn rockets, and determined...
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    Saturn IB was last flown in 1975 for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the Shuttle development program was already well underway. However, the Shuttle did...
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    The Shuttle-C was a study by NASA to turn the Space Shuttle launch stack into a dedicated uncrewed cargo launcher. The Space Shuttle external tank and...
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    Skylab (redirect from Saturn V Workshop)
    was the IBM System/4Pi TC-1, a relative of the AP-101 Space Shuttle computers. The Saturn V with serial number SA-513, originally produced for the Apollo...
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    Huntsville, Alabama is the test stand used for testing of the Saturn V rocket and the Space Shuttle prior to the vehicles' first flights. Designated building...
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    F-1s in the Saturn V was 3,357 US gal (12,710 L) or 28,415 lb (12,890 kg) per second. Each F-1 engine had more thrust than three Space Shuttle Main Engines...
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  • R (first stage) Vulcan (engines) WIRES Proposals Kankoh-maru SASSTO Saturn-Shuttle Canceled Adeline Angara Ares I (first stage) Ares V (boosters) Chang...
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  • superficially similar to the American Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar and the larger Space Shuttle. In January 1985, CNES proposed to proceed with Hermes development under...
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    need for the sort of external boosters and fuel tanks used by the Space Shuttle. But, after the composite tank failed on the test stand during fueling...
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    building), just as NASA reused infrastructure designed for the Saturn V in the Space Shuttle program. Energia also replaced the "Vulkan" concept, which was...
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    The Saturn C-3 was the third rocket in the Saturn C series studied from 1959 to 1962. The design was for a three-stage launch vehicle that could launch...
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    halted in 1969, only to be restarted in 1974 in response to the U.S. Space Shuttle Program. The test vehicle made its first subsonic free-flight test in 1976...
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    The Space Shuttle external tank (ET) was the component of the Space Shuttle launch vehicle that contained the liquid hydrogen fuel and liquid oxygen oxidizer...
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    The Sega Saturn is a home video game console developed by Sega and released on November 22, 1994, in Japan, May 11, 1995, in North America, and July 8...
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    bay of the Space Shuttle, but underwent redesign for launch on a Delta IV or comparable rocket after it was determined that a shuttle flight would be uneconomical...
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  • capability similar to that of the Space Shuttle if it was constructed, but it never flew. With use of the Saturn V vehicle during Apollo, NASA began considering...
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  • Saturn 3 is a 1980 British science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Donen, and starring Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas and Harvey Keitel. The...
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    transport the Saturn IB and Saturn V rockets during the Apollo, Skylab and Apollo–Soyuz programs. They were then used to transport Space Shuttles from 1981...
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    and Falcon Heavy launches List of Falcon 9 Block 5 first-stage boosters Saturn IB, Apollo crewed LEO launcher (1966-1975) SpaceX Starship Falcon 9 Transporter-7...
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    Ares I (category Shuttle-derived space launch vehicles)
    at the same rocket factory (Michoud) used for the Space Shuttle's External Tank and the Saturn V's S-IC first stage. At approximately US$20–25 million...
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    Ares V (category Shuttle-derived space launch vehicles)
    Space Shuttle infrastructure. Ares V was to be the cargo launch component of the Constellation program. Unlike the Saturn V and Space Shuttle, where...
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    mission was developing the Saturn launch vehicles for the Apollo program. Marshall has been the lead center for the Space Shuttle main propulsion and external...
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    arrival of the shuttle at the dock and its move onto visitor center grounds. This was the largest item to arrive at the JSC dock since a Saturn V arrived for...
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    Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B (category Space Shuttle program)
    1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020   Saturn V   Saturn IB   Space Shuttle   Ares I   SLS United States portal Spaceflight portal List...
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  • use. Examples of reusable spacecraft are spaceplanes (such as the Space Shuttle orbiters and the Dream Chaser) and space capsules like the SpaceX Dragon...
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