Howard Jones
Supporter
Watch this!
0-2920-0 MPH in 400 seconds
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Terry Oxandale
Skinny Man
If that first half doesn't get the blood flowing...
Great video!!!
Great video!!!
First stage was really rough in the cockpit. Lots of vibration and shaking - crew was more or less along for the ride. Second stage was very smooth. During the last couple of minutes of powered flight, the acceleration was incredible. Had to throttle down the three engines not to exceed 3-Gs on crew for the last minute or so. That's about 100 feet per second per second of acceleration, for those counting.
We often had to hit a very specific velocity at Main Engine Cut Off (MECO). They were in the range of 25,950 fps - almost 5 mi/sec. And we hit them routinely, within a few fps. A couple of hundred fps over and you weren't in the correct orbit (overspeed). A couple of hundred under - you were coming home unless you performed some extra burns.
Ian Anderson
Lifetime Supporter
How many times did you go up?
we visited Kennedy Space centre last year and The boosters were impressive, but not as serious as the Saturn5 ones.
ian
I trained those guys and gals for many years.
Neil
Supporter
Ian, I was at the US Army Ordnance Guided Missile School at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama in the spring of 1961. One Saturn rocket engine was fired on a test stand there and it literally created a small earthquake. The ground shook and its noise was heard for miles; it was impressive.
