Comments on: How You’ll Fly to the MOON http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/12/30/how-youll-fly-to-the-moon/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:55:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Stannous http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/12/30/how-youll-fly-to-the-moon/#comment-42698 Stannous Mon, 01 Jan 2007 08:26:54 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/12/30/how-youll-fly-to-the-moon/#comment-42698 This could be the perfect example for this site- they have the basic idea that will be used but they greatly underestimate how it will eventually come to pass. Multi-stage rockets (a von Braun trademark) yes, but so much smaller and less powerful than what will eventually be built: About twice the size of the V-2 (!) 23m (72ft) / 25 tons (50,000 lbs) compared to the Saturn V: 110m (363ft) / 3,350 tons (6,699,000 lbs) This could be the perfect example for this site-
they have the basic idea that will be used but they greatly underestimate how it will eventually come to pass.
Multi-stage rockets (a von Braun trademark) yes, but so much smaller and less powerful than what will eventually be built:
About twice the size of the V-2 (!)
23m (72ft) / 25 tons (50,000 lbs)
compared to the Saturn V:
110m (363ft) / 3,350 tons (6,699,000 lbs)

]]> By: jayessell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/12/30/how-youll-fly-to-the-moon/#comment-42294 jayessell Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:46:40 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/12/30/how-youll-fly-to-the-moon/#comment-42294 Pretty good for 1948! I'm a little surprised by the "Russian Nesting Dolls" (what is that called?) concept for the upper (or should I say 'inner'?) stages. The tanks would be uneconomicly thin near the top. The technology that made the Saturn 5 and its upper stages possible is using the tanks as structure instead of a skeleton of steel or aluminum girders. I would have been very impressed had the article predicted a "Lunar Lander" that would be abandoned in lunar orbit after use, and an "Ablative Heat Sheild" for slowing the craft as it entered the atmosphere. "In 20 years, the on-board computer may be the size of a suitcase, thanks to the recently invented 'transistor'!" Happy New Year! By the way to those in the US..... After the all night Marx Brothers Marathon, the cable channel TCM will show classic 1950s SciFi movies New Years Day. 'Destination Moon' 3:30 pm eastern. Pretty good for 1948!

I’m a little surprised by the “Russian Nesting Dolls” (what is that called?) concept for the upper (or should I say ‘inner’?) stages.
The tanks would be uneconomicly thin near the top.

The technology that made the Saturn 5 and its upper stages possible is using the tanks as structure instead of a skeleton of steel or aluminum girders.

I would have been very impressed had the article predicted a “Lunar Lander” that would be abandoned in lunar orbit after use, and an “Ablative Heat Sheild” for slowing the craft as it entered the atmosphere.

“In 20 years, the on-board computer may be the size of a suitcase, thanks to the recently invented ‘transistor’!”

Happy New Year!
By the way to those in the US…..

After the all night Marx Brothers Marathon, the cable channel TCM will show classic 1950s SciFi movies New Years Day. ‘Destination Moon’ 3:30 pm eastern.

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