<VV> V2 vs Saturn

[jvhroberts]

The design is different, the size is WAY different, the fuels are different, and so on.

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On Mar 17, 2020 4:06 PM, Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:
>
> Thank you for correcting me - I must have been mis-informed. But when 
> you say it is 'un-related', presumably the pricniples are identical? The 
> thing I recall abut Shepard's first flght was that he had to pee in his 
> spacesuit as there were no toilet facilities onboard. The desginers 
> claimed, quite correctly, that it was designed to go straight up and 
> straight down, the journey lasting a few minutes. But poor Alan Shepard 
> had been delayed on the launch-pad for a while, and the designers hadn't 
> factored that in. All the big thing they got right, but it's always the 
> little things, isn't it!
>
> On 2020-03-17 11:11, John Roberts via VirtualVairs wrote:
> > The Redstone was an uprated V2, this is the rocket Shepard and
> > Grissom rode on. It is a single stage rocket incapable of orbital
> > flight. The Saturn V is totally different, FAR larger and unrelated 
> > in
> > design. 
> > Jon Roberts
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James P. Rice via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> > To: virtualvairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> > Sent: Mon, Mar 16, 2020 5:17 pm
> > Subject: <VV> V2 vs Saturn
> >
> > "Maybe not in a Saturn V though. Which, incidentally, was just an 
> > up-rated
> > Nazi V2 rocket. There would have been a Swastika on the Moon long 
> > before
> > 1969 if we hadn't upset their plans.
> >
> > Hugo:  You have engaged in Extreme Hyperbole with your statement the 
> > Saturn
> > V was a up-rated V2 .  Kind like saying a Porsche GT4 is a ungraded 
> > go-kart.
> >
> >
> > You need to go to Huntsville Alabama or the Kennedy Space Center and 
> > stand
> > under a Saturn V.  And maybe read some good history books about the 
> > 500 or
> > so repentant Kruts and why they choose to surrender to the US Army 
> > instead
> > of the Soviet Union.  Those who could not make the choice suffered 
> > mightily.
> >
> >
> > Historically Yours,
> >    
> >         James Rice
> >
> >
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