tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post7801941442563774625..comments2024-03-21T08:00:48.696-07:00Comments on No Shortage of Dreams: What If an Apollo Saturn Rocket Exploded on the Launch Pad? (1965)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-83513832998462069912018-06-23T11:01:57.011-07:002018-06-23T11:01:57.011-07:00The Saturn 1B was not involved in the Apollo 1 cre...The Saturn 1B was not involved in the Apollo 1 crew cabin fire. The Saturn was not fueled and merely was there to support the Apollo 1 spacecraft. The fault of the Apollo 1 fire and deaths is entirely with the design of the Apollo spacecraft (pure oxygen atmosphere, no emergency escape hatch, flamable materials used through out the interior of the crew cabin and crew clothing) and poor Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-23298327576020961252018-01-04T20:30:20.328-07:002018-01-04T20:30:20.328-07:00A:
The AS-204 Saturn IB rocket didn't kill th...A:<br /><br />The AS-204 Saturn IB rocket didn't kill the Apollo 1 crew - their Apollo CSM spacecraft did. The rocket was used later for the Apollo 5 LM test - it performed flawlessly.<br /><br />The post is about launchers, not spacecraft. If it were about Apollo spacecraft, I would not have said that no Apollo CSM ever killed its crew. In fact, the Apollo CSM was the least reliable major David S. F. Portreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818906581595028816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-22174636658048698712018-01-04T13:43:16.249-07:002018-01-04T13:43:16.249-07:00The above comment is in relation to your statement...The above comment is in relation to your statement "No member of the Saturn rocket family ever killed an astronaut." You are correct. It never killed AN astronaut, it killed 3.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-7168076004801479562018-01-04T13:41:14.155-07:002018-01-04T13:41:14.155-07:00Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Apollo 1 fire...Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Apollo 1 fire that killed Grissom, White and Chaffee involved a Saturn 1B.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-14796076542465506782016-02-25T18:07:08.167-07:002016-02-25T18:07:08.167-07:00Michael:
Thank you for your kind words. I think y...Michael:<br /><br />Thank you for your kind words. I think you should do a space history blog - there can never be enough of them!<br /><br />I've not been devoting enough time to the blog in the past few months, but that will soon change. I've been undertaking a project to re-org my files, something I should have done a couple of years ago. I have a long list of new posts to write. I David S. F. Portreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818906581595028816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-16182752044945610012016-02-23T18:30:37.185-07:002016-02-23T18:30:37.185-07:00David, just wanted to let you know how much I enjo...David, just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy the site - I've been catching up on all of your posts. I had entertained doing a blog similar to this for some time, then discovered someone beat me to it! Which is good - you do the topic far more justice than I could have.Michael Kramerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02058822156622197387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-73870126112932379012016-01-21T10:52:57.350-07:002016-01-21T10:52:57.350-07:00Carl:
I made the corrections. Thank you once agai...Carl:<br /><br />I made the corrections. Thank you once again for pointing out my errors. <br /><br />dsfpDavid S. F. Portreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818906581595028816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-84282253532682142142016-01-21T07:08:33.152-07:002016-01-21T07:08:33.152-07:00Carl:
Thanks for pointing out these details. I re...Carl:<br /><br />Thanks for pointing out these details. I read about the Skylab heat problem, but figured I'd save it for another day since it would need some explaining. As for the LES, I obviously need to look into this more closely. I relied on knowledge (or whatever) I picked up years ago - probably some news article. Never a good idea. I'll check my sources and correct the abort David S. F. Portreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818906581595028816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-86446020520691471142016-01-20T15:01:24.371-07:002016-01-20T15:01:24.371-07:00A few points to make about the Launch Escape Syste...A few points to make about the Launch Escape System: while it did possess three motors, these were not all used during any single abort mode. For example, the primary "Launch Escape Motor" provided the main impetus for any abort (incorporating a single motor with four nozzles). In a Mode 1A abort, the "Pitch Control Motor" would also be used to pull veer the Command Module Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09781644619602468232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-84893016368445773162015-08-03T18:18:26.872-07:002015-08-03T18:18:26.872-07:00Nostalgia tends to focus on missions, not on all t...Nostalgia tends to focus on missions, not on all the hard work that went into missions, which is one thing that I despise about it. NASA and its contractors performed many failure analyses. As you might expect, these were not widely publicized unless they were put to use. I plan a series of "Failure Was an Option" posts interspersed with posts on entirely different subjects. The next David S. F. Portreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818906581595028816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-32769473287271655252015-08-03T09:50:04.232-07:002015-08-03T09:50:04.232-07:00A Saturn V failure is rarely mentioned in history ...A Saturn V failure is rarely mentioned in history or nostalgia, is it?<br /><br />If we made Saturn V today, how would it be different? Lighter materials, improved reliability, more power, different fuels? Is SLS Block-II a worthy comparison? Seems like it proposes to lift 10% more mass with way more power?<br /><br />Pretty amazing it was as reliable as it was. Curious how close we ever got to Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17639020344662007725noreply@blogger.com