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Click picture to see more! "Saturn IB Improvement Study, Phase II Final Report" "Saturn IB Improvement Study, Phase II Final Report" Space Division, Chrysler Corporation, report TR-AE-6611, dated Oct 5, 1966. Work performed under NASA contract NAS8-20260, 154 pages scanned in grayscale. This study for NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center looked at using large solid rocket motors as strap-on boosters for the Saturn V... the five-segment UA-1205 motors used on the Titan III, the UA-1207 motors intended for use on the Titan IIIM (not used until the Titan IVA), and the first stage of the Minuteman ICBM. This report covers the payload capability, engineering changes to both the core vehicle and boosters, manufacturing and facility requirements for the various configurations... along with proposed schedules and costs. Designs covered in the preliminary trade study (with basic drawings) include: MLV-SAT-IB-11 (MLV-11): four UA-1200s as Zero Stage MLV-SAT-IB-12 (MLV-12): Four H-1s on S-IB, four UA-1200s as boost assist MLV-SAT-IB-13 (MLV-13): two UA-1200s as boost assist MLV-SAT-IB-14 (MLV-14): four Minuteman SRMs as boost assist MLV-SAT-IB-15 (MLV-15): eight Minuteman SRMs as boost assist Several vehicles were studied in a bit more depth, and have better drawings presented, including: MLV-SAT-IB-11.5: four UA-1205s MLV-SAT-IB-11.5A: four UA-1205s and stretched Saturn core MLV-SAT-IB-11.7A: four UA-1207s and stretched Saturn core MLV-SAT-IB-13.7: two UA-1207s and stretched Saturn core MLV-SAT-IB-14: four Minuteman SRMs and stretched Saturn core This is a good match for the Modified Saturn IB drawing set. Price for Download: $5.50	Click picture to see more! Modified Saturn IB drawings Three large-format (~12100X3000 pixels) grayscale GIF-format inboard profile NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center drawings of modified versions of the Saturn IB. Includes: 60KC3214: MLV-SAT-IB-11.5... A Saturn IB with four UA-1205 boosters (same solid rocket boosters used on the Titan III) 60KC3215 MLV-SAT-IB-11.5A ...A Saturn IB with four UA-1205 boosters and a stretched core 60KC3216 MLV-SAT-IB-11.7A... A Saturn IB with four UA-1207 boosters and a stretched core Also includes smaller (4000 px wide) versions of these drawings for easier viewing and printing The perfect match for "Saturn IB Improvement Study, Phase II Final Report" Price for Download: $5.50	Click picture to see more! Saturn V Inboard Profile: 1 NASA-MSFC drawing 10M04574 of the Apollo 8 AS-503 Saturn V. Scanned at 300 DPI from the on-hand original (a somewhat scaled-down "blueprint" copy of the actual original), which is about 6 feet long! Price for Download: $8.0
Click picture to see more! Saturn V Payload Planner's Guide PDF file, scanned at full-color 300 DPI for high clarity. This 64 page 1965 document from Douglas Missile & Space Systems Division shows what payload possibilities were available, everything from small bolt-on "Get Away Specials" to interstellar probes using Centaur upper stages. Filled with detailed drawings. Price for Download: $5.50	Click picture to see more! Saturn IB Payload Planner's Guide PDF file, scanned at full-color 300 DPI for high clarity. This 55 page 1965 document from Douglas Missile & Space Systems Division shows what payload possibilities were available, everything from small bolt-on "Get Away Specials" to high-velocity missions using Centaur upper stages. Filled with detailed drawings. Price for Download: $5.50	Click picture to see more! Saturn Inboard Profiles: 2 This includes: NASA-MSFC Drawing 10M03369, Saturn V Inboard profile, dated 3-12-1962. Very large-format (20725X3400 pixels) grayscale line drawing of the complete booster. Also includes ca. 1963 NASA-MSFC drawings of individual stages: NASA-MSFC Drawing 10M04564 "Assembly Layout S-IC Stage, Saturn V," 14225X2507 px NASA-MSFC Drawing 10M03552 "Assembly Layout Saturn S-IB Stage," 13344X2397 px NASA-MSFC Drawing 10M03563 "Assembly Layout S-IVB Stage Saturn IB," 10661X2571 px NASA-MSFC Drawing 10M04120 "Assembly Layout S-IVB Stage Saturn V," 9191X2501 NASA-MSFC Drawing (number unavailable), "Assembly Layout S-II Stage," 8977X2389 px BONUS: reduced-size versions of all drawings for easier viewing. Price for Download: $5.50
Click picture to see more! Lunar Module Inboard diagrams Includes two detailed inboard views of the Lunar Module: Grumman drawing LTM340-10003 , dated 3/10/64. 21356X5139 pixels. Not quite the LM as built... shows the round (rather than square) front entry hatch. Includes a great deal of inner layout detail and callouts. A NASA LM inboard view dated 10-1-65, with the proper square hatch. Includes smaller versions for easier viewing/printing. Price for Download: $7.00	Click picture to see more! Apollo Extension System Diagrams In 1965 North American studied using the Lunar Module as an orbital research platform. The descent stage would be very greatly modified. This set includes 9 large format drawings (ranging from 5790 to 15990 pixels wide) showing the modified LM laboratory as well as the Saturn Ib and Saturn V launch vehicles planned for use. The launch vehicles do not appear to be notably modified from the standard layout, but the inboard profiles are nonetheless impressive pieces of engineering art. Includes: Three Saturn Ib inboard profiles One Saturn V inboard profile Five LM Lab general arrangements Price for Download: $5.50	Click picture to see more! Paraglider Recovery System for the Saturn Booster A 77-page PDF brochure from Ryan, dated 15 August 1961, describing design studies and results for using a deployable Rogallo wing (basically... a hang glider) mounted to the side of a Saturn C-1 or C-2 (Dyna Soar) booster for gliding recovery onto runways. Presents design overview as well as detailed component design (such as landing gear and deployment mechanisms), along with launch and flyback trajectories, expected aerothermal heating, glide ratios, program costs and more. Price for Download: $5.50
Click picture to see more! Lunar Landing Training Vehicle Reports This set includes three PDF file reports on the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle (LLTV), a.k.a. Lunar Landing Research vehicle (LLRV). Includes: "Lunar Landing Training Vehicle, Model Specifications For." Dated 9-17-69, Specification CF325-6M-366, Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston. 160 pages "Lunar Landing Training Vehicle No. 1 Accident Investigation Board Report." Sometimes things go wrong. This report, dated March 12, 1969, describes the Dec. 8, 1968, crash of an LLTV piloted by Joseph Algranti. Includes many technical details of the LLTV design, as well as photos of the LLTV in both normal and crashed configurations. 230 pages. "Report 7161-954005 Lunar Landing Research Vehicle Flight Manual." Pretty much what it says, this 1 April 1964 report describes how to fly the LLRV. 153 pages including many drawings and photos, descriptions of systems and, importantly, how to punch out in an emergency. Price for Download: $5.50	Click picture to see more! Lunar Module Manuals Five PDF reports describing the nuts and bolts of the Lunar Module. Includes: "Course no 30005-012 LM Orientation Training." Dated November 1966, this 73-page compilation of graphics gives an overview of LM design and systems. "LMA790-1 Lunar Excursion Module Familiarization Manual." A 116-page Grumman report dated 15 October 1965 describes the LM and systems in considerable detail. "LMA790-3-LM 10 Apollo Operations Handbook LM-10 and Subsequent Vol1." A sizable 804-page Grumman manual dated 1 April 1971 describes virtually every system - and how they are to work and be maintained - in exhaustive and illustrated detail. "LMA790-3-LM 11 Apollo Operations Handbook LM-11 and Subsequent Vol2." An even bigger 917-page Grumman manual dated 26 September 1971 lists what they must have thought was every procedure imaginable for the LM, from closeout to docking. "Lunar Module Subsystem Assembly and Installations." A Grumman brochure from December 1967 gives a general overview of the tasks associated with assembling a Lunar Module. 56 pages, with the original having been produced "magazine style" and opened up and scanned in full color. Price for Download: $7.00	Click picture to see more! Launch Complex 39 documents LC-39 was where the Saturn V was launched, and here are some documents describing the launch facility. "Launch Complex-39 Mobile Launcher Service Arms, Operations and Maintenance." 16 May 1969 handbook on the maintenance requirements and methods for the environmental chamber at the end of the Command Module Access Arm. Many illustrations. 132 pages "Launch Complex 39 Facility Description." An October 1, 1966 report describing the facilities and ground support equipment at LC-39. Many illustrations in 130 pages, covering the whole area. "Launcher - Umbilical Towers Launch Complex 39 Revised Bid Drawings." A 78-page book of detailed architectural drawings of the launch pad and towers by Reynolds, Smith & Hills, architects. July 7, 1964. None of that computer aided design stuff... all done by hand. "LC-39 Arming Tower Drawings." A 29-page book of detailed architectural drawings of the arming tower. Drawings done at NASA-KSC, dating from 1971. "LC-39 Facilities Handbook." This 75-page US Army Corps of Engineers report gives a photo-illustrated overview of all the major facilities, structures and buildings at Launch Complex 39. Circa 1967. Price for Download: $5.50
Click picture to see more! Skylab/Apollo Command and Service Module diagram set Thirteen large format (about 10100X2700 pixel each) North American Rockwell diagrams of the Apollo Command and Service Modules, CSMs 116-119. A wealth of detail! Extensive detail on the components of the Command and Service Modules, including wiring, structure, instruments, seats, reaction control systems & tanks & plumbing, docking systems & hardware, and more. The end result of a years work. (Obviously, not one years non-stop work, but still... a lot of effort went into making these images presentable). Also includes smaller versions of the drawings for easier viewing and printing. Price for Download: $15.00 Delicately watermarked promo image of the Skylab/Apollo CSM & Saturn Ib adapter inboard profile	Click picture to see more! Manned Space Laboratory A 196 page Douglas Aircraft Company report, "MANNED SPACE LABORATORY REQUIREMENTS AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGNS FOR MID-60'S DEPLOYMENT." This describes preliminary designs for small space stations up to Skylab-sized. Given that nthis report dates from June, 1962, this report is significant in that it describes something very like Skylab... a Saturn S-IVB "wet lab" similar to Skylab. However, this was to be launched with an Apollo capsule already in place. Several other concepts also presented. Price for Download: $5.50	Click picture to see more! Saturn S-IVB sketches "Technical Memorandum 136 V/S-IVB Configuration Sketches," McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company, July 1969. 102 pages of exactly what the title suggests... sketches and diagrams of the S-IVB upper stage in great detail. July, 1969, covering both Saturn Ib and Saturn V variants of the S-IVB stage. Price for Download: $8.00
Click picture to see more! 156, 260-Inch solid + S-IVB stage Douglas Missile & Space Systems Division report DAC-58036 "Large Solid Motors in Booster Applications." 50 pages covering the use of 156-inch and 260-inch diameter solid rocket motors as the first stage for Saturn Ib-class boosters. Price for Download: $5.50	Click picture to see more! 260-inch + S-II stage Boeing report D5-13148 "Final Report 260-inch Solid Motor/S-II Vehicle Feasibility Study." A 91 page report (taken from microfilm... two original pages per PDF-page) describing something like the current Ares I booster, but much larger. Price for Download: $5.50	Click picture to see more! Apollo operations handbooks A collection of five North American Aviation reports covering the Apollo command and service modules (primarily the former), Blocks I and II, in exhaustive detail: APOLLO OPERATIONS HANDBOOK COMMAND AND SERVICE MODULE. SPACECRAFT 012 (1010 pages) APOLLO OPERATIONS HANDBOOK COMMAND AND SERVICE MODULE. SPACECRAFT 014 (718 pages) COMMAND SERVICE MODULE SYSTEM HANDBOOK AS-501 (395 pages) APOLLO OPERATIONS HANDBOOK BLOCK II SPACECRAFT VOL. 1 SPACECRAFT DESCRIPTION, Oct 1969 (962 PAGES) APOLLO OPERATIONS HANDBOOK BLOCK II SPACECRAFT VOL. 1 SPACECRAFT DESCRIPTION, Jan 1970 (1067 PAGES) Price to Download: $13.00
Click picture to see more! Juno V Space Vehicle Development Program Army Ballistic Missile Agency report "Juno V Space Vehicle Development Program, (Phase I) Booster Feasibility Demonstration," dated 13 October 1958, 34 pages. This describes The Juno V, which was what the Saturn I was called before it became a NASA. Includes diagrams of the Juno V, several steps in the development of the Juno V, alternate tank concepts, recovery concepts, test vehicles and growth options. An interesting look at the early days of the Saturn. Price for Download: $5.50	Click picture to see more! Development and Use of a 12-Man Space Station McDonnell-Douglas Astronautics Company presentation MDC G0583, dated June 1970, describes an ambitious Saturn-launched, Shuttle-services space station. In its early phases the station would rotate to produce artificial gravity. The station was designed to be modular so that larger versions could be assembled, or serve as interplanetary spacecraft. Numerous drawings of modules, assemblies and internal layouts. Read this and weep over what kind of space station we could have had. 111 pages. Price for Download: $5.50	Click picture to see more! A LUNAR EXPLORATION PROGRAM BASED UPON SATURN-BOOSTED SYSTEMS US Army Ordnance Missile Command Report No. DV-TR-2-60 "A Lunar Exploration Program Based Upon Saturn Boosted Systems," dated February 1960. This report, prepared at the request of NASA, presents the result of the US Army Ballistic Missile Agency's efforts to design lunar soft-landing missions - robotic and manned - using the Saturn launch vehicle. A historic report from just before the Apollo program, this report shows designs for space capsules, lunar landers, robotic probes, recovery operations, launch vehicles and in-space assembly and refueling operations. This was before lunar orbit rendezvous, so the entire manned vehicle would land on the moon, including the re-entry capsule. 404 pages . Price for Download (120 meg PDF file): $7.00
Click picture to see more! Skylab: A Guidebook A 255 page publication from Marshall Space Flight Center, this circa 1973 Guidebook covers the design and purpose of Skylab in great detail. Chapters include: I. SCIENCE FROM ORBIT--AN INTRODUCTION TO SKYLAB II. HISTORY OF THE SKYLAB PROGRAM III. PROFILE OF THE SKYLAB MISSION IV. SKYLAB DESIGN AND OPERATION V. RESEARCH PROGRAMS ON SKYLAB VI. GROUND-BASED SUPPORTING PROJECTS LISTING OF SKYLAB EXPERIMENTS Price for Download (4 PDF files, 190 meg total): $7.00	Click picture to see more! Integrated Manned Interplanetary Spacecraft Concept Definition Seven volumes of a 1968 Boeing report dealing with a nuclear-powered manned Mars vehicle. This report covers the design of the interplanetary vehicle, the Mars lander, the NERVA nuclear engine and Saturn-derived launch vehicles (including the Saturn V-3XU and 4XU, which used 3 and 4 modified S-IC stages clustered together). A wonderful source of detail on an archetypical manned space vehicle, perhaps the classic nuclear Mars vehicle. D2-113544-1, Vol 1, Summary, 49 pages D2-113544-1, Vol 2, System Assessment and Sensitivities, 188 pages D2-113544-1, Vol 3 part 1, System Analysis (part 1 - Missions and Operations), 244 pages D2-113544-1, Vol 3 part 2, System Analysis (part 2 - Experiment Program), 293 pages D2-113544-1, Vol 4, System Definition, 525 pages D2-113544-1, Vol 5, Program Plans and Costs, 281 pages D2-113544-1, Vol 6, Cost-Effective Subsystem Selection and Evolutionary Development, 283 pages Price for Download (92 meg ZIP/PDF file): $7.00	Click picture to see more! Apollo/Saturn V Systems Familiarization A 59-page heavily illustrated training report describing the ground facilities for the Saturn V. Technical diagrams and floorplans are provided for the VAB, the Crawler, Mobile Service Structure, Launcher-Umbilical Tower, Flame Deflector, Propellant Areas and more. Price for Download (10 meg ZIP/PDF file): $5.50
Click picture to see more! Apollo "A"/Saturn C-1 Launch Vehicle System 410 pages worth of NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center report from July 1961 (report no. MPR-M-SAT-61-5), compiling technical information on the Saturn C-1, the proposed Saturn C-2 and the larger Saturn C-3 (which replaced the S-I first stage with a new stage using two F-1 engines), as well as the Apollo "A" configuration (which at the time was an Apollo capsule married to a Service Module equipped with solid rocket motors and trailing a Space Laboratory). The report primarily deals with technical details of the C-1, including structural tests facilities, aerothermal heating tests, live fire tests, weights & balance, CG shifts during flight, trajectory information and more. Price for Download (17 meg ZIP/PDF file): $5.50	Click picture to see more! Saturn V Inboard Profile Similar to the AS-503 Saturn V inboard profile, this shows the earlier NASA-MSFC drawing 10M03369 in grayscale. Very large at 28109 x 5225 pixels. Also provided are numerous smaller and B&W versions for easier viewing and printing. Price for download (17.6 meg ZIP file), everywhere on Earth: $7	Click picture to see more! NASA/Grumman Apollo Lunar Module An 18-page NASA/Grumman LEM artwork package, scanned & cleaned from a package of transparencies; as you go through the pages, you "peel off" layers from the LEM. If you print these off on transparencies, you can do the same! Shows the LEM from several angles and many "cutaways." Price for Download (50 meg PDF file): $8.00
Click picture to see more! NERVA presentation A 50-page 1965 presentation on a Douglas concept for a NERVA (nuclear) engine for the second stage of the Saturn Ib and Saturn V. Flight profiles, stage modifications, radiation levels schedules and more are shown. Price for Download (5 meg PDF file): $5.50	Click picture to see more! Saturn Mission Payload Versatility A 57-page Boeing presentation from 1967 showing advanced versions of the Saturn V, including four-engined S-IC stages, SSTO semi-recoverable "S-ID" version and solid-boosted concepts. Price for Download (15 meg PDF file): $5.50	Click picture to see more! Extended Mission Apollo Study A 16-page North American briefing from 1963 on a space lab to replace the LEM adapter, and to be used in conjunction with the Apollo CSM. Detailed drawings! Price for Download (18 meg PDF file): $5.50
Click picture to see more! Advanced Saturn/Apollo Missions A 32-page illustrated briefing package presented by Donald Douglas, Jr. (of Douglas Aircraft) to NASA in November, 1965, describing several advanced missions possible with Saturn/Apollo hardware. These include: Lifting body testing Commercial application High velocity re-entry Stage recovery from orbit Lunar applications of spent S-Ivb Stage "Wet lab" space station (early Skylab concept) Joint Saturn Ib/V mission Lunar backside communication relay Price for download (2 megabyte PDF file), everywhere on Earth: $5.50	Click picture to see more! Solid Propellant Motor Applications for Future launch Vehicles A 62-page NASA presentation describing the 260-inch solid rocket development program and hoped-for uses, including replacing the first stage of the Saturn Ib, as well as serving as strap-on boosters for very large boosters. Dated July 1965, it includes diagrams, photos and artwork illustrating numerous concepts. Price for download (72 megabyte PDF file), everywhere on Earth: $5.50	Click picture to see more! Extended Apollo Laboratory Module A 43-page Boeing report, monthly report number 3, dated February 1965, describing work being done on a small laboratory module (mini space station) for the Apollo program. This module was designed to fit within the Lunar Exploration Module adapter behind the Apollo CSM on the Saturn IB/Saturn V launch vehicles. ALSO: Extended Apollo Laboratory Module Design Data Book, a 52 page Boeing description of several lab configurations. Dated January 1965. Many drawings! Price for download (9 megabyte PDF file), everywhere on Earth: $5.50 US CD-ROM order: $7.50
Click picture to see more! North American Aviation preliminary Manned Mars landers A drawing package containing 6 detailed NAA preliminary design drawings. These designs were produced in 1966 for NASA. Package includes: 10-Man PEM (Planetary Excursion Module), a half-cone, winged lifting body (6504X3263 pixels) 16-Man PEM. Similar to the 10-man, just larger... (7240X3263 pixels) 10-man Ballistic PEM, similar in configuration to the Apollo Command Module (7370X2979 px) 10-man Biconic PEM, similar to the Ballistic, but smaller in diameter and longer in length, with a geometry change (11460X3389 px) Biconic Earth Return Module - basic internal layout and external geometry of the capsule that would return the crew to Earth (7248X3263 px) 14-Man Cryogenic Mars Aerobraking Spacecraft - the entire vehicle which would put itself into Mars orbit, drop the PEM, and return the crew to Earth (13443X3438 px) BONUS: halfsize versions of each for easier viewing and printing Price for download (10 megabyte ZIP file), everywhere on Earth: $7.00	Click picture to see more! North American Aviation preliminary Manned Landers for Ceres and Vesta The same contract that produced the Space Drawing 15 Mars landers also produced these two landers designed for the asteroids of Ceres and Vesta. The landers made no concessions to aerodynamics and little to gravity, as the asteroids had no atmospheres and little enough gravity. The landers look vaguely like the LEM designed by Grumman, but included larger volumes for extended living space. Two drawings are contained in this package: Three-man Retro PEM (6496X3263 px) Ten-man Retro PEM (7256X3263 px) BOUNS: halfsize versions of each for easier viewing and printing Price for download (1.2 megabyte ZIP file), everywhere on Earth: $5.50	Click picture to see more! Early General Electric D-2 Apollo Configuration design drawings Before the Apollo Command and Service Module designs we've come to know were settled upon, numerous American aerospace companies designed their own vehicles to fulfill the Apollo role. General Electric was one of those companies, and their most detailed design was the D-2 configuration. Much like the later Soyuz design (a fact that has caused many to wonder if the design was "copied" by the Soviets), the D-2 consisted of a power & propulsion module at the aft, a re-entry module in the middle and an expendable Mission Module up front, all contained within an aerodynamic shroud. The recovery vehicle portion bears a striking resemblance to the Soyuz version. Unlike the Soyuz, the D-2 would retain the shroud while in space. This package includes: Inboard Profile with callouts (8008X2512 pixels) A second inboard profile providing more details on the re-entry module (3769X2602 px) Recovery Vehicle inboard profile (7823X2648 px) D-2 Spacecraft Modular Configuration providing dimensions and lines for the external shroud (4812X2292 px) BOUNS: halfsize versions of each for easier viewing and printing Price for download (1.5 megabyte ZIP file), everywhere on Earth: $5.50
Click picture to see more! Here is NASA-MSFC drawing 10M03738, dated Sep 1, 1966. This diagram shows the painting patterns for the Saturn Ib. This means the striking black-and-white patterns used to determine the roll orientation of the vehicle on ascent. This diagram is a very clear grayscale, 10,608 pixels by 3015 pixels, and comes with a half-size and quarter-size version for easier viewing and printing. Price for download (3 megabyte ZIP file), everywhere on Earth: $3.50