A review of the structural design of the Saturn S-IV stage booster
- Paper ID
IAF-61-73
- author
- company
Space Strength Section, Douglas Aircraft Company Inc.
- country
U.S.A.
- year
1961
- abstract
Most of the space boosters in use today had their beginnings as ballistic missile weapons. Typical of these vehicles are Atlas, Jupiter, Redstone, and Thor. As space mission requirements demanded larger and larger payloads, it soon became obvious that a booster capable of handling larger payloads than these converted weapons could launch was required. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Saturn vehicle was conceived to meet these demands. Two projected configurations of this vehicle are shown in Fig. 1. This paper is concerned primarily with the Douglas-built S-IV stage of this system being devel-