Nov 042012
 

A piece of NASA presentation artwork from 1961 showing a basic design for an all-chemical-rocket design for a Nova launch vehicle. This would have been somewhat more powerful than the as-yet undesigned Saturn V; and it would have needed to be in order to carry of its mission. The Lunar Orbit Rendezvous design had not yet been chosen, and consequently the Apollo capsule and the service module both would have been landed directly on the lunar surface.

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  One Response to ““Chemical Nova””

  1. I remember stumbling across that one when researching a related variant which replaced the 2 J-2 stage (S-III?) with a standard S-IVb which had it gone into use would have been called the Saturn VIII.

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