Saturn project
Measuring instruments
Rocket engines
Liquid propellant rockets
V-2 missile
The following article is a digest from the Book, "From Peenemunde to Outer Space", commemorating the fiftieth birthday of Wernher von Braun, March 23, 1962 condensed by H. M. Hammac).
Driscoll, Daniel H.
Schuler, Albert E.
University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
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Articles
IBM computers
Apollo project
These are the facts about IBM's role as a NASA prime contractor in the Apollo/Saturn program. They are organized for quick reference. Computer terms are defined in a glossary. Glossy prints of photographs and illustrations are available from IBM information offices listed on the following page. Please order by photo number. Andrew J. Cella Manager of Information, IBM Federal Systems Division.
International Business Machines Corporation. Federal Systems Division
Press Releases
Clean rooms
Instrumentation
A history of the IBM's Space Systems Center clean room and a description of its uses.
Heuring, Harvey
"IBM Mobile Room Lends Flexibility to Apollo Saturn Unit Fabrication."
Contamination
This article was published in the April 1967 issue of Contamination Control, Volume VI, Number 4. States: "The extreme sensitivity of critical parts in the Apollo /Saturn Instrument Unit (IU) has demanded unique clean room techniques by International Business Machines Corporation."
Saturn launch vehicles--Design and construction
Saturn 1 launch vehicles
Spacecraft design
This paper discusses five improved versions of the Uprated Saturn I that were studied by the Chrysler Corporation Space Division, supported by the Douglas Aircraft Corporation.
Tharratt, C. E.
Essays
"The Influence of Apollo/Saturn V Launch Operations on Lunar Site Selection: Case 330."
Lunar surface vehicles
Lunar landing
Space vehicles
This paper presents some relationships between Apollo/Saturn V launch operations and multiple lunar landing sites, including the means by which site selection could facilitate launch operations.
Eley, C. H.
"Information About Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Florida Research and Development Center."
RL-10 engines
A history of Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Florida Research and Development Center.
United Aircraft Corporation. Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division. Florida Research and Development Center
Historical Summaries
Saturn S-2 stage
Welding
Archive copy is a poor photocopy. Cannot read.
Phillips, Samuel C. (Samuel Cochrane), 1921-1990
Memorandums
"Instrumentation Programming for Computer Controlled Digital Data Processing."
Digital techniques
Flight management systems
Airborne/spaceborne computers
Spacecraft electronic equipment
Spacecraft instruments
A number of considerations are necessary in instrumentation programming, many of which are either not applicable or applicable to a lesser degree in other types of programming. This paper discusses these problems in general terms and illustrates how they have been dealt with specifically. The latter is done by describing the programming and operation of a data reduction system.
Anderson, Philip N.
Launch vehicles (Astronautics)
Saturn S-4B stage
A three-foot high Instrument tional Business Machines Corporation will be launched into orbit with a huge Saturn second stage later this month in a crucial test for the Apollo lunar program.
"Instrument Unit to Navigate Saturn IB's First Flight.".
Saturn launch vehicles--Control systems
Saturn launch vehicles--Guidance systems
Saturn 1B launch vehicles
Within the first 10 minutes of NASA's initial Saturn IB flight, the Instrument Unit (IU), nervecenter of America's mightiest launch vehicle, is designed to make more than 7 million calculations, sample vehicle calculations 100 times a minute, telemeter 3 million numbers back to Earth, and measure the performance of 300 pieces of equipment in the IU, S-IB, and S-IVB stages.
International Business Machines Corporation
History
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
An outline of an interview with Wernher von Braun.
Outlines
"Interface Problems in Space Experimentation."
Systems engineering.
Systems integration
Space experimentation is expanding rapidly. Unmanned satellites are being equipped with precision instruments of greater power, and manned space stations accommodating large crews are in the drawing-board stage. The interface problems between these sophisticated instruments and between man, the spacecraft, and the supporting groundstations are multidimensional. This paper analyzes the scientific/technical areas of space experimentation, and continues with a review of the subsystems and support systems required to supply and operate the large variety of instruments. Areas of major integration efforts are singled out and the requirements for further developments and improvements are listed. A bibliography of 95 references is enclosed to assist in the identification of more detailed reports on all vital aspects of space experimentation.; Archive copy is a photocopy.; Supplement to IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. AES-2, No. 4, July, 1966. Pages 237 to 255.
Filipowsky, R. F.
Reports
"Interface Control Document Definition of Saturn SA-507 Flight Sequence Program."
Digital computers
Interfaces
Saturn launch vehicles
Data processing
The purpose of this document is to define the flight sequence events, time bases, stage switch selector channel assignments, LVDA Discrete Outputs, Inputs and Interrupts for the Saturn SA-507 & Subs vehicles. Special requirements and restrictions defined in this document will be imposed on the Marshall Space Flight Center and its contractors as applicable, to insure the proper functioning of the equipment in the various stages for required vehicle timing and sequencing to occur as outlined in this Interface Control Document (ICD).
George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. Airborne Electrical Systems Branch
Documentation
Transcription of an interview between Davis S. Akens and Arthur Rudolph
Akens, David S.
Interviews
Von Braun, Wernher, 1912-1977
Transcription of an interview with Wernher von Braun and Mr. Sohier.
Sohier, Walter D.
"The Iterative Guidance Law for Saturn."
Spacecraft guidance
Summary: "Based on Lawden's equation, semi-explicit,'iterative' Saturn guidance equations are derived, many were successfully flight tested on Saturn I and analyzed for the main Apollo mission and other applications applications."
Horn, Helmut J.
"An Iterative Guidance Scheme and Its Application to Lunar Landing."
Space vehicles--Guidance systems
A guidance scheme for vehicle flight from lunar orbit to a prescribed point on a spherical, non-rotating moon is presented. The equations of motion have been simplified only to perm it a closed solution for the thrust magnitude and thrust direction. The trajectory computations them selves are made under more realistic and accurate assumptions and are not included.
Guidence Schemes
This is a note book that contains newspaper articles and photographs about the new IBM building in Huntsville, Alabama. It also has information about the Instrument Unit for the first Saturn IB flight. There is also information about the Saturn IB Instrument Unit being barged to Kennedy Space Center.; There are 2 pages that list the articles with the title, newspaper name, writer and date.; There are six color photographs that show the dedication of the IBM building and the Instrument Unit. One photograph has Dr. Wernher von Braun standing behind the ring. Two of the photographs show the Instrument Unit on a trailer being pulled by a truck.; Preferred Citation: [Identification of item] Saturn V Collection, Dept. of Archives/Special Collections, M. Louis Salmon Library, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL.
Slattery, Bart J.
Still Image
Photographs
"Flat Cable Engineering Studies for Saturn S-IVB Vehicles."
This paper describes the engineering approaches, investigations, results and conclusions of two National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) flat-cable contracts from the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) to the Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., for feasibility studies on the S-IVB stage of the Saturn Vehicle. In addition, the objectives and approaches for a third contract., "Flat-Cable Engineering Study", are discussed. A sister Douglas Paper No. 4186, to be presented by Dr. P. L. Hill, covers in detail the manufacturing aspects of the Flat-Cable Development Program.; Prepared by R.A. Klotz, Advance applications, Saturn Electronics, Missile and Space Systems Group, McDonnell Douglas Corporation for presentation at: IPC/EDN Flat-Cable Seminar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 20 June 1967.
Klotz, R. A.