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cspg
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posted 12-12-2019 11:27 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
NASA Saturn I/IB Launch Vehicles Owners' Workshop Manual: An Insight Into the Technology, Engineering and Operational History of NASA's First and Last Apollo Launch Vehicle
by David Baker
The Saturn I and IB series of rockets fulfilled plans developed in the late 1950s to build a rocket which could triple the existing thrust levels of US rockets and equal the lifting capacity of the Soviet Union, launching satellites and spacecraft weighing more than 10 tonnes into Earth orbit and do it by the early 1960s. Three times more powerful than anything launched by America to that date, with a cluster of eight rocket motors for the first stage, the first Saturn I flew on 27 October 1961 and propelled America into the heavy-lift business.

It was the Saturn 1, and its successor the Saturn IB, with a more powerful second stage, that did all the preparatory work getting NASA ready to put men on the Moon. The Saturn I and IB was used on 19 launches, including the first manned Apollo spacecraft, Apollo 7 in 1968, all three Skylab flights in 1973 and the last Apollo spacecraft flown in support of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975.

  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • J H Haynes & Co Ltd (4 January 2020)
  • ISBN-10: 1785216597
  • ISBN-13: 978-1785216596
According to Amazon, the UK release is Jan. 4, 2020 and Aug. 25, 2020 in the US.

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posted 01-29-2020 03:09 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The UK release date is now August 3, 2020.

cspg
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posted 12-18-2020 04:26 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Amazon UK cancelled my order today (12/18) as the book is "unavailable." No other publishing date given. I had seen it pushed back into the spring 2021 but that's gone too. No info on Amazon (US or UK) or the Haynes website.

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posted 12-18-2020 04:50 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for PeterO   Click Here to Email PeterO     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Book Depository still has it listed with Feb 1, 2021 as the arrival date.

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posted 01-16-2021 01:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jjknap   Click Here to Email jjknap     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Looks like this book is no longer being published:
Disappointing news for anyone else who was also eagerly waiting on the delayed publication of the Saturn I/IB Haynes Manual. I've been in touch with Haynes and it's no longer going to be published.
In fact, no more Haynes Manuals will be published. The publisher of the Haynes car manuals says it will no longer produce new editions.
The new owners say they do not see a future in printing new versions of the much-loved guides and have made eight editorial staff redundant.

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posted 02-02-2021 04:57 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great. Life is getting better after each passing day. Can't wait for the digital world to go belly up. Covid will be remembered as a joyride compared to what's coming.

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posted 02-02-2021 02:53 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for nasamad   Click Here to Email nasamad     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Such a shame, their line of historical manuals were a wealth of information. I learned so much from the Saturn V manual. I was hoping for a reprint of the Willys jeep manual to help with one I've been building, for some reason they stopped that print early and used copies are pricey to say the least.

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posted 02-02-2021 05:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for p51   Click Here to Email p51     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
As someone with a 1944 Willys MB (which I've been very slack with operating since the pandemic started), I think you're not missing much. I have it, and I don't think you could rebuild a Jeep with one. It gives you some info, but it's more of a fan's guide than giving any real good data.

Maybe that was the whole thing behind this, they went from, "How you actually repair this," to, "Hey, isn't this cool?"

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posted 02-04-2021 02:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for PeterO   Click Here to Email PeterO     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I've heard from a now former Haynes Manual author that the authors of in-progress Haynes Manuals are free to complete and publish those books elsewhere. Perhaps Dr. Baker will consider doing that.

He also says that Haynes will reprint existing Manuals that have sufficient sales, so some of the space-related Manuals may continue to be available.

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posted 02-05-2021 07:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for PeterO   Click Here to Email PeterO     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The author, David Baker, has posted this in a space modeling group:
I write as author of 17 Haynes titles (of 120 books published to date since the mid-1970s) and of the prospective Saturn I/IB and Lost Missions books to update folks on this forum. These titles were in contract with Haynes when they decided last November to pull out of book publishing. No, nothing to do with COVID-19 as it all happened as a result of being taken over by a French company more than a year ago; more to do with a change of strategy for them to focus on their core business. Publishing was only one small part. We do wish them well.

Delighted to say that the Saturn I/IB book has been taken over by Crecy Publishing as has the Lost Missions book. That will be out later this year. In addition, I will be doing a Saturn V book for them (out by Christmas) and all three will be two to three times the size (but not two to three times the price!) of the original Haynes titles. So, one step back, two steps forward. Each book with have a bigger format too so images/drawings, etc will be larger on the page. Good news for modelers' eyesight!

And by the way, there is in fact a huge market uptake for space subjects, as folks will see during this year and the following, with lots of interesting projects emerging from different publishers...

A win-win!!

Good news indeed!

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posted 02-05-2021 10:11 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jjknap   Click Here to Email jjknap     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Wonderful news! Thanks for posting this update!

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posted 03-24-2021 03:30 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here you go: The Saturn 1/1B Rocket: NASA's First Apollo Launch Vehicle.

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