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In this eagerly anticipated book, renowned space historian and author David Baker turns his attention to the Saturn I and IB rockets. Although considered as merely a 'stepping stone' from the Mercury and Gemini programmes to the mighty Saturn V and the Apollo missions that put the first humans on the Moon, the Saturn I and IB rockets actually played a far more significant role in NASA's manned space effort. As the first American 'heavy lift' rocket , Wernher von Braun's Saturn I traced its lineage right back to his WWII V2 rocket, through Redstone to the Jupiter and Juno projects that lead to the Saturn vehicles. In describing this often-overlooked historical background, the story of the transition of the space programme from the US Army to the (then) newly-formed NASA, and the evolution from launching men and satellites on modified missiles, to flying purpose-built space rockets, is also uncovered. The first Saturn I flew in 1961 and it remained in service until 1975, flying the first manned Apollo mission, testing stages for the Moon flights and launching 'Skylab' astronauts amongst other accomplishments. Illustrated throughout with NASA technical drawings and photographs, many previously unpublished, this absorbing book also includes a description of each mission flown by the Saturn I and IB.

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David Baker is an aerospace historian, consultant and writer. He has worked with NASA and the US Air Force on several specific projects and in 1984 set up a space consultancy in London with an office in the USA, supporting commercial space activities. He also had extensive discussions with aerospace officials in Russian, China and Japan as well as most European countries and in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. In 1986, David was elected a voting member of the International Academy of Astronautics. Throughout his career, he has pursued an avid interest in aerospace history and has written over 120 books and served as editor of several other titles and magazines. David has received several international awards for his work, including the 'Rolls-Royce Award for the Best Propulsion Submission, RAeS Aerospace Journalist of the Year 1998', was one of the recipients of the 'Arthur C Clarke Award 2006' and in October 2017, received the American Astronautical Society's Frederick I Ordway III award with the citation 'for a sustained excellence in space coverage, through books and articles, as well as engagement in the early space program.

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