Ed Kyle wrote:

I've posted a rarely seen photo of the last Saturn IB booster stage,
built for
the SA-214 vehicle, at the following address.

"http://geocities.com/launchreport/sa214.html"

Today, with the agency scrambling to develop a new Saturn IB class
Crew Launch Vehicle, it almost hurts to view this photograph of one of
three powerful booster stages that NASA saw fit, in another time, to
scrap.



Yeah, but it was pretty large and heavy for its capabilities, and eight
motors is about where you start to worry about the odds of a
catastrophic single engine failure occurring and destroying the stage.
Mind you, it beats the hell out of putting thirty engines in the first
stage like the N-1 did.
That was just asking for it. :-D

Pat