Blueprint: The Saturn 1/1B Rocket by David Baker (new series from Crecy)

[overscan (PaulMM)]

The Saturn 1/1B Rocket
NASA’s First Apollo Launch Vehicle​

Author: David Baker
RRP: £27.95
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AVAILABLE FROM 31ST OCT 2021

In this eagerly anticipated book, renowned space historian and author David Baker turns his attenti on to the Saturn I and IB rockets. Although often considered as merely a ‘stepping stone’ from the Mercury and Gemini programmes to the mighty Saturn V and the Apollo missions that put the first humans on the Moon, the Saturn I and IB rockets actually played a far more significant role in NASA’s manned space effort.
As the first American ‘heavy lift ’ rocket, Wernher von Braun’s Saturn I traced its lineage right back to his WWII V2 rocket, through Redstone to the Jupiter and Juno projects that lead to the Saturn vehicles. In describing this often-overlooked historical background, the story of the transiti on of the space programme from the US Army to the (then) newly-formed NASA, and the evolution from launching men and satellites on modified missiles, to fl ying purpose-built space rockets, is also uncovered.
The first Saturn I fl ew in 1961 and it remained in service unti l 1975, flying the first manned Apollo mission, testing stages for the Moon flights and launching ‘Skylab’ astronauts amongst other accomplishments. Illustrated throughout with NASA technical drawings and photographs, many previously unpublished, this absorbing book also includes a description of each mission fl own by the Saturn I and IB.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION​

ISBN: 9781800350281
Binding: Hardback
Dimensions: 280mm x 216mm
Pages: 304
Photos/Illus: Over 300 photographs, drawings and illustrati ons
This product will be in stock on Friday 29. October, 2021.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Presumably based on the cancelled Haynes book:

• Format Hardback | 224 pages
• Dimensions 210 x 270mm
• Publication date 25 Mar 2021
• Publisher HAYNES PUBLISHING GROUP
• Imprint J H Haynes & Co Ltd
• Publication City/Country Somerset, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note 300 Illustrations, unspecified

 

[starviking]

Looks interesting.

Hope they fix the flub on the cover: Whilst the rocket was pronounced "Saturn One", the numeric designation was in Roman numerals, so Saturn I, not Saturn 1.

 

[Schneiderman]

Good to see, Baker's earlier works are excellent

 

[Dagger]

Look what I found in my mail box this morning:





The book has 384 pages A4/Letter size, and they corrected the cover flub that starviking noted earlier.

 

[Pasoleati]

Any interior samples?

 

[Dagger]

I attached some very low res samples (max 500 wide) to avoid copyright problems.
See sample name for chapter.

The book contains a lot of drawings, and a considerable part of the Saturn related photos is in colour.
Browsing through it it looks like an amazing book. Still have to read it though.