The
Saturn C8 was the largest Saturn 5 version ever
considered, but never build or launched. The
model
is in scale 1:100, and about
135cm tall.
Download model; part_1,
part_2,
part_3,
and instruction.
or all in one as zip (6,5 Mb) here.
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| There are basicly three ways to
go to the moon. The direct approach, starting
with a full spacecraft, and landing on the
moon. Earth orbit rendez-vous, where a lunar
craft is amsembled in earth orbit,
before travelling to the moon, and lunar orbit
rendez-vous, where the landing is performed by a
se-
parate landing machine.
Earth orbit rendez-vous could easily had been
performed by Saturn 1b (Saturn C1) launchers,
even
it would have taken severel , 15-18, launches
to do it. The direct approach would have takern a
saturn
C8 launch to perform, but NASA engineer John
Houbolt discovered, by using lunar orbit
rendezvous,
the mission could be performed with 1 Saturn V
(Saturn C5) launch.
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