luke strawwalker
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Here's a little bit of a change for me... I've spent a couple days reading this study, trying to figure out how best to summarize it, and pretty much figured out that I can't really summarize it and still do it justice-- there's SO much good information in there that deciding what to cut is rather pointless... it'd just water the whole thing down too much.
SO, after debating what to do, I decided to just post the entire thing. Of course it won't fit within the file limits of the site, but that's okay, since it's on the internet already... here's a link to the study...
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19740021163.pdf
Of course a study summary wouldn't be much use without the usual snips of the various pictures, diagrams, blueprints, and graphics... and there's a bunch of them, which will be in the posts to follow.
Basically, if there's ANYTHING you ever wanted to know about the Saturn IB, specifically the ones used for launching the Skylab crews, which represented pretty much the height of Saturn IB, then this is the thing to read. Everything from abort modes, the positions of pretty much every switch and button in the capsule and how to use them, and what they do, how the range safety system works and destroys the vehicle if the button was pushed, the events of the flight, how the engines started up, etc., it's all pretty much in there.
SO, download the study, read to your hearts content, or just peruse the snips I'll post shortly. It's pretty amazing history of a very interesting vehicle, which sadly never even approached it's full potential... and it was done on the cheap on fairly short notice, and the very dawn of the space age...
Pics to come... Enjoy! OL JR
SO, after debating what to do, I decided to just post the entire thing. Of course it won't fit within the file limits of the site, but that's okay, since it's on the internet already... here's a link to the study...
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19740021163.pdf
Of course a study summary wouldn't be much use without the usual snips of the various pictures, diagrams, blueprints, and graphics... and there's a bunch of them, which will be in the posts to follow.
Basically, if there's ANYTHING you ever wanted to know about the Saturn IB, specifically the ones used for launching the Skylab crews, which represented pretty much the height of Saturn IB, then this is the thing to read. Everything from abort modes, the positions of pretty much every switch and button in the capsule and how to use them, and what they do, how the range safety system works and destroys the vehicle if the button was pushed, the events of the flight, how the engines started up, etc., it's all pretty much in there.
SO, download the study, read to your hearts content, or just peruse the snips I'll post shortly. It's pretty amazing history of a very interesting vehicle, which sadly never even approached it's full potential... and it was done on the cheap on fairly short notice, and the very dawn of the space age...
Pics to come... Enjoy! OL JR
