AS-202_v_bw_o_n (Douglas-NAA (Rocketdyne) news photo, GHH 01/07/66, VEH-709, DAC photo no. B 54-18-3 eq)
“SATURN S-IVB STAGE --- A single Rocketdyne J-2 liquid rocket engine provides 200,000 pounds of thrust to power the S-IVB stage of Saturn IB and V launch vehicles. S-IVB is produced by Douglas Aircraft Company Missile and Space Systems division for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. It will be used as second stage of Saturn IB and third stage of Saturn V to launch astronauts to moon in the Apollo spacecraft. (Douglas Photo)”
The photo also bears an NAA/Rocketdyne "VEH 709" stamp on the verso, underneath the attached data sheet.
Based upon the following information & photo:
history.nasa.gov/MHR-5/part-7.htm
history.nasa.gov/MHR-5/Images/fig274.jpg
Per excellent observation by Steven Isherwood, I’ve corrected vehicle identification to either AS-201 or AS-202, the latter being the front runner. While I still believe the vehicle in the photo and in the above link to be the same, it is most certainly not S-IVB-105, as incorrectly identified in the “Saturn Illustrated Chronology”.
Corrected identification is tacitly supported in the following extract from the excellent Space Launch Report website:
"SA-202: (S-1B-2/S-IVB-202/S-IU-202) Launched 8/25/1966 from Canaveral LC34 with CSM-011 on suborbital AS-202 test mission. S-1B-2 and S-IU-202 delivered Cape February 1966. S-IVB-202 delivered Cape January 1966."
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AS-202_v_bw_o_n (Douglas-NAA (Rocketdyne) news photo, GHH 01/07/66, VEH-709, DAC photo no. B 54-18-3 eq)
“SATURN S-IVB STAGE --- A single Rocketdyne J-2 liquid rocket engine provides 200,000 pounds of thrust to power the S-IVB stage of Saturn IB and V launch vehicles. S-IVB is produced by Douglas Aircraft Company Missile and Space Systems division for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. It will be used as second stage of Saturn IB and third stage of Saturn V to launch astronauts to moon in the Apollo spacecraft. (Douglas Photo)”
The photo also bears an NAA/Rocketdyne "VEH 709" stamp on the verso, underneath the attached data sheet.
Based upon the following information & photo:
history.nasa.gov/MHR-5/part-7.htm
history.nasa.gov/MHR-5/Images/fig274.jpg
Per excellent observation by Steven Isherwood, I’ve corrected vehicle identification to either AS-201 or AS-202, the latter being the front runner. While I still believe the vehicle in the photo and in the above link to be the same, it is most certainly not S-IVB-105, as incorrectly identified in the “Saturn Illustrated Chronology”.
Corrected identification is tacitly supported in the following extract from the excellent Space Launch Report website:
"SA-202: (S-1B-2/S-IVB-202/S-IU-202) Launched 8/25/1966 from Canaveral LC34 with CSM-011 on suborbital AS-202 test mission. S-1B-2 and S-IU-202 delivered Cape February 1966. S-IVB-202 delivered Cape January 1966."
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