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The second stage, indefinite,
9 million lbs., usingliquid oxygen and RP fuel.
will be liquid andRP, and will develop 1.8 million Ibs. thrust, The third
| stage} also indefinite, will deliver 600,000 lbs. The Nova will put 270,000.
Iba, in a 300 a.m. orbit, or 60,000 lbs. in the 24 hr. orbit, or it will put
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At this point in the presentation some discussion was made of possible
missions for‘the various big boosters, If 9 Saturn's were used in a rendezvous
method, each of the latter to refuel the first one, a soft lunar landing could be
‘made with'10, 000 lbs. payload brought back, A six stage Nova will all
' chemical) fual could also do the same,
Four and five stage combinations of
Nova and various chemical or nuclear stages could also do the same. An
optimistic estimate of the first nuclear type would be 1965, which - agrees with.
the figure previously given by the AEC people.
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- Considerable discuséion followed then concerning what we might use Saturn
for. It zauat be: realised at this point, however, that Hyatt is concerned with
the launch vehicles and not with the missiles themselves.”
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