Boeing advanced Saturn proposal
Boeing S-1C stage recovery scheme. Even before the first Saturn I flew, engineers were designing methods by which the expensive booster stages could be recovered, reffurbished, and reused. The Army's "Project Horizon" lunar base plan envisioned such a volume of launches that some such procedure would have been required, in order tolower5 operating costs. The low number of actual Saturn flights that NASA launched rendered the idea unworthy of the payload weight penalties for recovery gear.
Boeing advanced Saturn proposal
Boeing S-1C stage recovery scheme. Even before the first Saturn I flew, engineers were designing methods by which the expensive booster stages could be recovered, reffurbished, and reused. The Army's "Project Horizon" lunar base plan envisioned such a volume of launches that some such procedure would have been required, in order tolower5 operating costs. The low number of actual Saturn flights that NASA launched rendered the idea unworthy of the payload weight penalties for recovery gear.