1962-1972 Post-Saturn Launch Vehicle Studies

NOTE

Trying to collate all of the various post-Saturn concepts is a confusing mess; because targets were constantly changing. I've chosen to organize things by year and paper.

Bulletpointed entries under each main report/paper indicate sub-papers or reports referenced by the paper itself.

Solid-Boosted Nova Vehicle System Study: Volume III (April 1963) (15.7~ MB PDF)

Launch Vehicle Implications for Mars Exploration (May 1963) (5.68~ MB PDF)

Nova Launch Vehicle Design Studies (June 1963) by Andrew Kalitinsky (9.9~ MB PDF)

K. A. Ehricke, et al., A Study of Early Manned Interplanetary Missions, General Dynamics/Astronautics Report AOK63-0001, Jan., 1963 (43.3 MB PDF)

NASA TM X-955: Proceedings of Conference on Large Liquid Rocket Systems (July 1963) (158~ MB PDF)

This rather meaty 400~ page document that goes into a lot of trades that were made during the early Post-Saturn studies for a lot of subsystems.

GD/A63-0065 - Nexus: Concept of a Large Reusable Earth Launch Vehicle (1963) (9.7~ MB PDF)

NASA TM X-53010: Post-Saturn Launch Vehicle Study (Part II) Condensed Summary Report (April 1964) (PDF)

Large Post-Saturn Launch Vehicles: Why? When? What? (June 1964) by William G. Huber (1.6~ MB PDF)

The Effects of New Large Launch Vehicles on the Cost-Effectiveness of the National Booster Program (1964) by H.H. Koelle (PDF)

Martin Post-Saturn Launch Vehicle Study: Summary Review (October 1964) (36.9~ MB PDF)

This document contains copies of the visual aids presented by Martin Company to NASA Marshall Space Flight Center during the Post Saturn Part III Final Summary Review on October 27, 1964.

Large Post-Saturn Launch Vehicles: Why? When? What? (March 1965) by William G. Huber (PDF)

This version is a slightly changed version of the 1964 paper presented to AIAA. The main changes are the addition of several references to other papers:

Ehricke, K. A., Economy of large launch vehicles including orbital labor cost (PDF)
Koelle, H. H., Orbital burden rates for manned space missions (PDF)

NASA TM X-53200: Advanced Post-Saturn Earth Launch Vehicle Study: Executive Summary Report (3 February 1965) (1.2~ MB PDF)

NASA CR-73087: Study of Structural Weight Sensitivities for Large Rocket Systems, Final Report - Volume 2 of 2: Detailed Analysis and Results (July 1967) (10.2~ MB PDF)

General Electric performed detailed parametric analyses on three baseline vehicle configurations selected from a Post-Saturn Vehicle study performed by the Martin Company for this study.

NOTE: This document no longer can be easily found on the internet; the original NTRS filename was 19670023575_1967023575.pdf