Aviation Week & Space Technology, Volume 80, No. 1, January 6, 1964

114 pages. Illustrations (a few with color). Cover has bottom damp staining (affects some interior pages also), ink notation, wear and soiling. Cover illustration is a S-4 stage atop SA-5 Aviation Week & Space Technology, often abbreviated Aviation Week or AW&ST, is the flagship magazine of the Aviation Week Network. The weekly magazine is available in print and online, reporting on the aerospace, defense and aviation industries, with a core focus on aerospace technology. It has reputation for its contacts inside the United States military and industry organizations. The publication is sometimes informally called "Aviation Leak and Space Mythology" in defense circles. The magazine was first published in August 1916 and changed to its current title in January 1960. Other titles the magazine has held include Aviation & Aircraft Journal (1920-1921), Aviation (1922-1947), Aviation Week (1947-1958), Aviation Week Including Space Technology (1958-1959). The fifth Saturn research and development vehicle was, at the time of this issue, tentative scheduled to fly from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral Jan. 20. It was to be the first flight of a live Saturn upper stage, the Douglas Aircraft Co.'s S-4, shown atop the S-1 first stage, National Aeronautics and Space Administration was using the time resulting from the recent postponement to run additional tests on the S-4. Payload of 37,700 lb. was the heaviest scheduled to be sent into space by the U.S. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus (Only 92, 508 copies of this issue printed--few survive).…