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For what it's worth, the Apollo program only had one bespoke launch vehicle, the Saturn V. Mercury used the Redstone (for sub-orbital flights) and Atlas, and Ge
by themadturk 3y ago
For what it's worth, the Apollo program only had one bespoke launch vehicle, the Saturn V. Mercury used the Redstone (for sub-orbital flights) and Atlas, and Gemini the Titan, all of which were developed as ballistic missile platforms.
- avmich 3y agoNot counting Saturn-I AND Saturn-IB?
- tonyarkles 3y agoAnd that's kind of the point of the rule :). >39. (alternate formulation) The three keys to keeping a new human space program affordable and on schedule: > 1) No new launch vehicles. > 2) No new launch vehicles. > 3) Whatever you do, don't develop any new launch vehicles. Given that SpaceX wanted to make a more affordable launch vehicle, they obviously needed to design one. But it certainly didn't make their human space flight programme go faster compared to past endeavours.