Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles (Nasa History Series.) - Softcover

Bilstein, Roger E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0160489091 ISBN 13: 9780160489099

Publisher: United States Govt Printing Office, 1996

Synopsis

Contains a study of the development of the Saturn launch vehicle for the Apollo Moon Missions. Recounts the exploits of the Saturn vehicle's operational life from orbital missions around Earth testing Apollo equipment to the Moon and back. Reprint of a book that was originally published in 1980.

About this title

About the Author:

Roger E. Bilstein is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Houston, Clear Lake. He is the author of Flight Patterns: Trends of Aeronautical Development in the United States, 1918-1929; Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles; and Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts, the last available from Johns Hopkins.

Review:

"Easily the best book of the NASA History Series....Starting with the earliest rockets, Bilstein traces the development of the family of massive Saturn launch vehicles that carried the Apollo astronauts to the moon and boosted Skylab into orbit."

About this edition

• Publisher: United States Govt Printing Office
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0160489091
• ISBN 13: 9780160489099
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 536