Chrysler Corporation
5 Saturn IB Systems Training Manuals, 1965
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July 27, 02:18 PM GMT
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3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Chrysler Corporation
5 Saturn IB Systems Training Manuals, 1965
5 manuals, each measuring 8½ x 11 inches, 4 manuals bound in undated 3-ring binder, one manual loose and without binder holes, "GARDNER/DEPT 6915" in manuscript in black ink to top left of three covers, "E.A. GARDNER/DEPT 6915/EX 853-6574" in manuscript in black ink to top right of one cover, some manuscript notations throughout, 8 pp. of extensive manuscript notations in red and black ink on loose leaf paper stapled to inside back cover of Propulsion System Training Manual, presumably by "GARDNER." Staining to covers and sides of manuals.
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Chrysler built the S-IB stage of the Saturn IB rocket at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana. First launched on February 26, 1966 as the first stage of Apollo-Saturn 201 (AS-201), itself the first Saturn IB launch vehicle, the mission was an uncrewed suborbital flight to test the Saturn 1B launch vehicle and the Apollo Command and Service Modules. Saturn IB rockets were used to ferry crews to the Skylab space station, and for the US-USSR Apollo Soyuz Test Project.
While one manual provides a general overview of the Saturn IB launch vehicle, the other four concern the pneumatic, fuel, LOX (liquid oxygen), and propulsion systems on Chrysler's Saturn S-IB stage. The manuals include details related to malfunction and cutoff possibilities, the probability of vehicle tower collisions, theory of rocket propulsion, the relevancy of Newton’s laws for thrust principles, and the Saturn rocket family evolution.