<VV> V2 vs Saturn

[Hugo Miller]

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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