Talk:Saturn IB
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[edit] Engine info
Does anyone think there's any point to having information about the H-1 and J-2 engines on this page when it's basically a duplicate of part of the H-1 and J-2 pages? Mark Grant 20:19, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
- Since no-one seems to care, I've removed those sections. We should really expand the rest to be more like the Saturn V article. Mark Grant 23:30, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Payload to LEO
I am missing something?? The article states that the IB could lift 15,300 kg (33,700 lb)into LEO. However according to the Apollo Command/Service Module page the CSM weighed 30,332 kg (66,871 lb). One of these figures must be wrong as the Saturn IB lifted an Apollo CSM into LEO on five different manned missions. Prehaps the author of the article got pounds and kilograms mixed up and the LEO-payload of the Saturn IB is actually 33,700 kg? Teiresias84 04:17, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
I'm guessing that on low earth orbit flights the Apollo Service module was loaded with much less fuel than for the Lunar missions, accounting for the difference in masses. -- Beb. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.222.11.226 (talk) 14:28, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
