Saturn 8 Nova by PatKun13

History:
Saturn 8 Nova is a super heavy lift rocket concept for Direct Ascent Mission profile for the then incoming Apollo Moon Landing in the 1960's. Larger than its contemporary rocket design C5 (It will materialize to be the now famous Saturn V), the C8, with its powerful stages, will take humans directly to the Moon's surface without having to execute the risky yet more economical Lunar Orbit Rendezvous approach of the latter. For this reason, the Saturn 8 was not chosen for the Moon Landings. Saturn V would go on and make history while the C8 was shelved, and was planned to be used for the planned Mars exploration as it needs a larger booster for the mission. This too was cancelled as NASA received less and less budget after the success of Apollo Program.

Features:

Inflateables for Apollo Capsule
Launch Escape System

Notes:

Inflatables for Capsule is activated by staging and deploys by applying 100% throttle upon descent
Launch escape tower is automatically ejected by proceeding in autostaging after launch abort.

Controls:

AG1: Launch Escape System
AG2: (Slider 1) Landing Gear
AG3: (Slider 2) CSM Antenna
AG4: Landing Lights
AG5: Capsule RCS
AG6: Parachutes (Small)
AG7: Main Parachutes
AG10: CSM RCS

Issues:

Launch from DSC Launch Pad results from one engine lost, suggested launch point is DSC Large Pad

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