Oddly enough I actually always thought the Saturn Rockets were the hot rods. I’ve read that a shuttle launch is a pretty gentle ride in comparison.
Cool pic anyway.
as a kid two friends and i cut school and drove from tampa to see a moon launch
great
but no comparison to a shuttle launch.
as a kid two friends and i cut school and drove from tampa to see a moon launch
great
but no comparison to a shuttle launch.
I believe you’re right; but the Mercury flights were the hardest, if memory serves, around 5 g’s, while the Shuttle flight is under 3 g’s. Apollo’s kick in the pants got bigger with each succeeding stage. The Saturn V’s job was to lift every bit of mass needed for the entire lunar mission (there and back, including a landing and launch on the lunar surface) off the ground and get it high enough where the subsequent stages could finish the direct ascent. That was a hell of a piece of machinery.