03-30-2011, 05:29 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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There's an illustration of that proposed Saturn V with four solid strap-on motors in the TIME-LIFE book "Man and Space" (it's part of a painting of proposed Nova launch vehicle designs).
I wish Aerojet hadn't closed down their 260" solid motor facility in Florida (not too far from my original home in Miami). Their 260" and 156" modular solid propellant launch vehicles held much promise (there's even a model plan for their "baby" two-stage 260"/156" vehicle in the online Estes "Model Rocket News" plans), but when NASA chose Thiokol's segmented SRB for the Shuttle and the USAF stated that they had no need for Aerojet's huge vehicles, their plans died. Aerojet's last (expended) short-length 260" motor is still sitting in the static test firing pit at their abandoned Florida facility...
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