Thread: Military vs Civilian Orbital Laboratories, Vehicles, and Crews
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Old March 12th 08, 05:51 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.station,sci.space.shuttle,sci.space.history
Pat Flannery
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Default Military vs Civilian Orbital Laboratories, Vehicles, and Crews


wrote:

Thiokol did - to the everlasting chagrin of vonBraun who wanted
nothing to do with the SRBs. I count them as army.



Large scale SRBs were first used for the Titan III, an Air Force, not
Army, project.
Although NASA looked at giant SRBs for the Saturn V first stage in case
the F-1 engine flopped, that was a civilian project, as there was no
military use for SRBs of that size.

Pat