10-15-2018, 07:58 AM
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Old Fart Rocketeer
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 142
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Quote:
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)
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Referencing the illustration, is that a Titan II on top of a clustered booster on the A-1?
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