Saturday 4 May 2024

For The Man That Has Everything,

the ultimate Big Boys toy,


photograph NASA buy him a NASA Saturn V rocket! in case you are wondering how much the Christmas present will be, here are the costs:

in the time frame from 1969 to 1971 the cost of launching a Saturn V Apollo mission was between $185,000,000 to $189,000,000, of which $110 million were used for the production of the vehicle (equivalent to $1.18 billion–$1.2 billion in 2023), if that is a tad too much there is an alternative, 

coming back to Earth you could always buy him the owners workshop manual, 

the manual covers 1967–1973 (Apollo 4 to Apollo 17 & Skylab),

the manual tells the story of this magnificent and hugely powerful machine,

the book also explains how each of the vehicle's three stages worked; Boeing's S-IC first stage with a power output as great as the UK's peak electricity consumption, North American Aviation's S-II troubled second stage, Douglas's workhorse S-IVB third stage with its instrument unit brain - as much a spacecraft as a rocket, the book runs to 176 information packed pages, yours for just £18.75, a bargain if you are into rockets I would guess, and a tad cheaper than the real thing!


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