Posted on March 12, 2015
Just as launch complex 34 dwarfed its predecessors, Saturn’s checkout represented a new magnitude in launch operations. The Saturn C-1 stood three times higher, required six times more fuel, and produced ten times more thrust than the Jupiter. Its size, was only a part of the challenge to the Launch Operations Directorate at Cape Canaveral…
Lifting the first stage from the transporter
Hoisting the stage in vertical attitude
Erecting the upper stages
Early design concepts of C-1 and C-5 versions of the Saturn launch vehicles
16-Unloading Compromise in Florida
15-S-I and S-IV stages aboard the Compromise
14-Booster movement around Wheeler Dam
11-Launch Complex 34
10-Configurations of Saturn flight vehicles
9-Saturn Barge route
7-Six-engine configuration of the S-IV stage
6-Redesigned tail of the Saturn booster
5- The barge Palaemon
3-First horizontal mating of the Saturn vehicle
2-Movement of dummy S-IV stage to checkout