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ghrocketman 10-14-2018 10:15 PM

Why is the Saturn V not the Saturn II ?
 
Might be a simple question, but why is the Saturn V the "V" and not the "II" ?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do not recall any Saturn II, III, or IV rockets.
What's the deal ??

kapton 10-14-2018 10:29 PM

Same reason it's the Falcon 9. Number of engines.

ghrocketman 10-14-2018 10:33 PM

C'mon noww.....that CAN'T be it...
If that was true the Saturn 1B would be the Saturn IX...try again....

MarkB. 10-14-2018 11:04 PM

I'm sure Luke Strawwalker will chime-in on this, but the short version is that Saturns II, III and IV were designs that didn't make the cut as the lunar mission evolved. I'm pretty sure the Saturn V was the Saturn IV with an extra engine so the "number of engines" reason is not that far off.

BARGeezer 10-15-2018 01:13 AM

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I'm sure Luke Strawwalker will chime-in on this, but the short version is that Saturns II, III and IV were designs that didn't make the cut as the lunar mission evolved. I'm pretty sure the Saturn V was the Saturn IV with an extra engine so the "number of engines" reason is not that far off.


Spot on. The Silverstein Committee proposed eight designs for the Saturn launch vehicles (see pic below). C-1 became the Saturn 1. A refinement of the C-1 became the Saturn 1B. C-5 became the Saturn V. If C-2, C-3, and C-4 had been built they might have been the Saturn II, III, and IV.


More info in this Wikipedia article, scroll down to Silverstein Committee:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(rocket_family))

L3Excalibur 10-15-2018 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by BARGeezer
Spot on. The Silverstein Committee proposed eight designs for the Saturn launch vehicles (see pic below). C-1 became the Saturn 1. A refinement of the C-1 became the Saturn 1B. C-5 became the Saturn V. If C-2, C-3, and C-4 had been built they might have been the Saturn II, III, and IV.


More info in this Wikipedia article, scroll down to Silverstein Committee:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(rocket_family)

Referencing the illustration, is that a Titan II on top of a clustered booster on the A-1?

BARGeezer 10-15-2018 08:17 AM

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Referencing the illustration, is that a Titan II on top of a clustered booster on the A-1?

Titan second stage, Centaur third stage. See the Wikipedia link for details, scroll down to Silverstein committee.

rocketguy101 10-15-2018 12:17 PM

The book "Stages to Saturn" covers this in detail...it got even a little crazier when they started pulling ideas from one "C" proposal to another...you needed a scorecard to keep up!

Doug Sams 10-15-2018 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by rocketguy101
The book "Stages to Saturn" covers this in detail...it got even a little crazier when they started pulling ideas from one "C" proposal to another...you needed a scorecard to keep up!
No matter how carefully I organize the new folders on my hard drive when I start a new project, I still end up with a quagmire of sub-folders with unsymmetrical, unintuitive names - the derivatives seem to always follow in a manner totally unanticipated when the project started.

I suspect something similar happened as the Saturn proposals evolved.

Doug

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5x7 10-15-2018 09:07 PM

Five is three better than two.


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