"Structural problems of large space boosters."
Saturn project
Aerospace engineering
Saturn launch vehicles--Testing
Launch vehicle configurations
Ground tests
Report discussing the flaws in having large rocket boosters.
Hellebrand, Emil A.
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Design Reviews
"Static test of Saturn V S-IC : news release.
Saturn 5 launch vehicles
Saturn S-1C stage
Static firing
Captive tests
Liquid propellant rockets--Testing
Report after second Saturn V flight test.
George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. Public Affairs Office
News Reports
"Statistical model for Saturn electrical support equipment mission availability."
Aeronautics--Launching
Mathematical models
Mission planning
Prediction
This report presents the logic leading to a mathematical expression for mission availability. Mission availability is treated as the probability that the cumulative downtime occurring during a mission of given length will be less than the time constraint. This is opposed to more general approaches such as steady state or instantaneous availability or operating time versus real time. We intend to present a practical and usable mathematical model by deduction and demonstration. The development is based on exponentially distributed downtimes. Experience shows that certain systems follow exponential downtime distributions except near zero. This error is often so small that it may be neglected. A future report will present a downtime distribution which will account for this small error.
Stanzel , A. K.
Reports
"The history of Army missile development."
Guided missiles
Rockets (Ordinance)
Rocketry
Published as "Army Missile Development," Army Information Digest, XI. Establishes the development and history of weaponized rocket ordenance.
Toftoy, Holger N.
Essays
"The ease (E's) of implementation of the Safety Program at the Marshall Space Flight Center."
Aerospace safety
Accidents--Prevention
Accident prevention
Presented at the 19th Annual Federal Safety Conference, National Safety Congress, Chicago, Illinois. A rundown of the new safety protocols, chiefly favoring the letter 'E.'
Roberts, L. L.
Memorandums
"The development of a bonded common bulkhead for Saturn."
Liquid propellant rockets--Fuel tanks
Bulkheads
Cryogenic rocket propellants
Cryogenic tanks
Saturn S-4 stage
Saturn S-4B stage
A Part of the development of the Saturn S-IV/S-IVB stage the Douglas Aircraft Company has pioneered in the development of the cryogenic common bulkhead. The term common bulkhead is derived from the design function of the bulkhead, which is to separate the two cryogenics, liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, in a single tank, thereby shortening the stage and eliminating the necessity for two separate bulkheads and the associated interstage structure. The common bulkhead is structurally adequate to withstand both the thermal and the pressure loads from both the hydrogen and the oxygen tanks, and it has sufficient insulation properties to prevent the liquid hydrogen from freezing the liquid oxygen. Another benefit from the common bulkhead is that it permits a reduction in the total length of the vehicle, thereby reducing the bending moments.
Robertson, A. C.
"The development of a checkout language : ATOLL."
Automatic test equipment
Acceptance, Test, or Launch Language (ATOLL)
Spacecraft launching
Space vehicle checkout program
ATOLL was developed to fulfill the requirements for a common computer language that could be used by the test engineers for launch and factory checkout. "ATOLL" is the abbreviated name for Acceptance, Test, Or Launch Language.
Balentine, R. C.
"Test procedure validation by computer simulation."
Electric networks
Computerized simulation
Digital computer simulation of the Saturn I Instrument Unit electrical networks was accomplished using the Discrete Network Simulation programs. The schematics were analyzed and a logic model prepared which consisted of a series of Boolean equations. The test procedures, which are written in the Acceptance, Test, or Launch Language (ATOLL), consist of a sequential set of computer instructions for the RCA llOA checkout computer to control the operation of the electrical networks. The procedures also contain the predicted results for each operation. The driving functions for the simulation of the model are generated from the ATOLL test tape by the Input Generator Program. The time sequenced operation of the networks is indicatedby the output from the simulation program in addition to the number of times each component in the system changes state. The results of the simulation are compared to the test procedure predictions on the ATOLL tape by the Comparator Program and any differences are listed. The Comparator Program also lists any component which did not change state at least once.
Jaegly, Robert L.
Saturn S-2 stage
Organization charts
Organization Chart of the North American Rockwell Test Operations.
North American Rockwell Corporation. Space Division
Still Image
Organization Charts
"Test Laboratory monthly progress report" October.
Apollo project
Planning
Project management
NASA space programs
Laboratory monthly progress report for the Saturn 1B program between dates October 1st through October 31st, 1967. Page 17 missing.
George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. Test Laboratory. Systems Test Division
Progress Reports
"Test Laboratory monthly progress report" December.
Laboratory monthly progress report for the Saturn 1B program between dates December 1st through December 31st, 1967.
"Test Laboratory monthly progress report" July.
Laboratory monthly progress report for the Saturn 1B program between dates July 1st through July 31st, 1967.
"Test Laboratory monthly progress report" August.
Laboratory monthly progress report for the Saturn 1B program between dates August 1st through August 31st, 1967.
"Test Laboratory progress report" May and June.
George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. Test Laboratory--Planning
Saturn V launch vehicles
Saturn 1B launch vehicles
Monthly rogress report for the test laboratory regarding the Saturn 1B program between Feburary and March
Heimburg, Karl L.
"Test Laboratory progress report" Febuary and March.
"Test Laboratory monthly progress report" Febuary.
Management
Laboratory monthly progress report for the Saturn 1B program between dates Febuary 1st through Febuary 31st, 1967.
"Test Laboratory monthly progress report" April.
Laboratory monthly progress report for the Saturn 1B program between dates April 1st through April 31st, 1967. Last page of document is missing.
"Test Laboratory monthly progress report" June.
Laboratory monthly progress report for the Saturn 1B program between dates June 1st through June 31st, 1967.
"Test Laboratory monthly progress report" September.
Laboratory monthly progress report for the Saturn 1B program between dates September 1st through September 31st, 1967.
"Test Laboratory monthly progress report" January.
George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. Test Laboratory
Laboratory monthly progress report for the Saturn 1B program between dates January 1st through January 31st, 1968.