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... progress of the Saturn IB has been excellent. We are on schedule to begin flight tests next year, to be followed by manned flights in 1967. "In the Saturn V /Apollo program we ... , orbiter payload could be easily handled by boosters ranging from Atlas-Centaur with an added kick stage, through the Saturn V which would be used to place a man on the moon ...

... ''(Wash. Post, 9/1/65, A28)'' First flight model of the S-IVB , Saturn IB second stage and Saturn V third stage, was formally presented to NASA by California Governor Edmund Brown ... , preflight test-firing August 8. ''( Marshall Space Flight Center MSFC Release 65-215)'' A Centaur rocket similar to the vehicle launched successfully into a simulated lunar-transfer trajectory Aug. ...

... to 1975." Scientific community was "still debating whether it would prefer an intensive Jupiter and Saturn explorational program or some form of grand tour to other planets as well," Dr. Fletcher ... of the surplus Saturn IB and Apollo hardware might be used to send an American crew to dock with a future Soviet space station. Then perhaps later if a remaining Saturn V is ... Satellite Consortium (INTELSAT). Launched from Eastern Test Range at 7:12 pm EST by Atlas-Centaur booster, satellite entered elliptical transfer orbit with 36523-km (22 694.3-mi) apogee, 5984 ...

... smaller glider weighing 6,500 pounds. Before the contract was issued Boeing suggested the Atlas-Centaur but naturally Martin wanted to use their own Titan. Boeing got the glider but were ... /LH2 J2 engine for the second stage. Another possibility considered was von Braun’s new Saturn C1 (NOVA) but was eliminated for cost and complexity reasons. Finally in February 1962 the ... went back to using the first stage of Wernher von Braun ’s new superbooster, the Saturn IB . There were a variety of still more proposed configurations which all have only one thing ...

... determine vehicle design modifications and ground support requirements for combining the Centaur as a third stage with the two-stage Saturn IB launch vehicle. The combination was being proposed to launch unmanned Voyager spacecraft to Mars in 1971. Study would be under direction of LRC. ''(NASA Centaur Proj. Off,; Gen ...

... VII (Mariner G) spacecraft was successfully launched from Eastern Test Range ETR by Atlas-Centaur (AC-19) booster on four-month, 193-million-mi, direct-ascent trajectory toward Mars ... modification to contract with Chrysler Corp. Space Div. for assembly of two boosters for Saturn IB rockets 213 and 214 for use in Apollo Applications program . ''( Marshall Space Flight Center ...

... Range, and 1 from San Marco. For the launches NASA would use a Saturn IB , 3 Titan-Centaurs, 5 Atlas-Centaurs, and 15 Thor-Delta launch vehicles. ''(NASA Release 75-5; KSC Release 180 ...

... as man-rated. The Saturn I completed its seventh ''(out of 7)'' successful test flight and orbited a new world weight record of 39,000 lbs. The Centaur continued a successful flight-test program to work the bugs out of the first liquid-hydrogen engines in an operational space vehicle. In ground tests the Saturn IB and V ...

... would use hydrogen-fueled Centaur . Two unmanned tests of Apollo lunar module and first manned test of Apollo spacecraft would use new Saturn IB vehicle. Three Apollo tests employing Saturn V would be launched ...

... signal transmission efficiency in space. ''(NASA Release 65-373)'' Fourth Chrysler-assembled Saturn IB first stage left NASA Michoud Assembly Facility aboard the NASA barge Palaemon ... . ''( Marshall Space Flight Center MSFC Release 65-295)'' Italy launched a French Centaure rocket in collaboration with the European Space Research Organization ( European Space Research Organization ...

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