a_v_bw_o_n (S61-459)
“The Saturn C-1 will be used for Apollo earth-orbital flights. It will have the capability of placing the Apollo command center, together with its propulsion and orbiting laboratory units, into an earth orbit between 150 and 300 miles above the earth’s surface.
In order to accelerate the Apollo spacecraft to escape velocity, which is nearly one-and-one-half times satellite velocity, a more powerful launch vehicle other than the Saturn C-1 will be needed. For the Apollo circumlunar flight, therefore, the Saturn C-2 will be employed. The Saturn C-2 differs from the C-1 in that it has a large hydrogen-oxygen propelled second stage. It will have the capability of sending the Apollo spacecraft and its propulsion unit to the vicinity of the moon. Both the Saturn C-1 and C-2 are currently under development. Before a manned lunar landing can be made, a launch vehicle that is much more powerful than the Saturn C-2 must be developed. The name given to such a vehicle, is Nova. A conceptual version of the Nova vehicle is shown on the figure, roughly to the same scale as the Saturn C-1 and C-2; it may approach one-half the height of the Washington Monument. Nova will employ, in its first stage, either a cluster of 1-1/2 million pound F-1 liquid fuel engines, or a cluster of large solid propellant engines.”
a_v_bw_o_n (S61-459)
“The Saturn C-1 will be used for Apollo earth-orbital flights. It will have the capability of placing the Apollo command center, together with its propulsion and orbiting laboratory units, into an earth orbit between 150 and 300 miles above the earth’s surface.
In order to accelerate the Apollo spacecraft to escape velocity, which is nearly one-and-one-half times satellite velocity, a more powerful launch vehicle other than the Saturn C-1 will be needed. For the Apollo circumlunar flight, therefore, the Saturn C-2 will be employed. The Saturn C-2 differs from the C-1 in that it has a large hydrogen-oxygen propelled second stage. It will have the capability of sending the Apollo spacecraft and its propulsion unit to the vicinity of the moon. Both the Saturn C-1 and C-2 are currently under development. Before a manned lunar landing can be made, a launch vehicle that is much more powerful than the Saturn C-2 must be developed. The name given to such a vehicle, is Nova. A conceptual version of the Nova vehicle is shown on the figure, roughly to the same scale as the Saturn C-1 and C-2; it may approach one-half the height of the Washington Monument. Nova will employ, in its first stage, either a cluster of 1-1/2 million pound F-1 liquid fuel engines, or a cluster of large solid propellant engines.”