I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but I don't know where to ask. I want to get a high quality orthographic blueprints of NASA's Saturn V rocket with dimensions and everything (I need it for 3d modeling), but all I could find was low quality images in Pinterest. Where can I find it? Is there any good source for this kind of stuff?
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2Good question. But questions like this and this or this suggest no official documents may exist. – Kozuch Mar 02 '21 at 10:55
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How high fidelity are you looking for? Do you need to model the internals accurately too? – Dragongeek Mar 02 '21 at 11:09
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@Dragongeek It doesn't need to be extremely accurate, I need it for a model for 3d animation. And no, I don't need the internals. – Avi Cohen Mar 02 '21 at 11:37
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3Does this answer your question? Do we still have all the blueprints to go to the Moon? – David Hammen Mar 02 '21 at 12:34
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@davidhammen not exactly, I don't need that amount of accuracy, I just need a high quality reference image with some measurements for modeling, I'm not going to a rocket... – Avi Cohen Mar 02 '21 at 12:43
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Had a bit of a gander at what NASA Technical Report Server and Semantic Scholar had to offer and found a couple things that I reckon might be helpful.
NASA created a 1/10 scale model of the Saturn V for a study vehicle dynamics and you can read the report here
This gives us these two schematics.
They also created a 1/25 scale model for aerodynamic testing. (read report here)(there's additional stuff in there like fin dimensions (I think) if you need that)
Some additional aerodynamic testing report from 1960 produced this schematic.
They were also looking into using Saturn V for deep space, resulting in this report schematics. (beefy ~40 tons to Mars)
Saturn V with a fairing if you want to be special.
Indicate if you need more in depth schematics and I dig a little deeper.
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2Great answer! Would you mind digging even deeper for some of my questions? Like this and this or this? – Kozuch Mar 03 '21 at 18:41
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There's a more detailed profile drawing available for download at the bottom of this Heroic Relics page. Here's a representative slice:
It used to be possible to get an inexpensive print of a cleaned-up, white-on blue version of this, 180cm long. (I have one, it's beautiful. The custom frame cost much more than the print.)
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2You might try looking at the gift shop at the NASA visitor's center in Clear Lake, TX (next to the Mission Control center). https://spacetrader.shop/ – Flydog57 Mar 02 '21 at 21:40
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1The site you linked says that they no longer sell those beautiful prints :( – Polygnome Mar 03 '21 at 18:38
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1@Polygnome I don't know if you saw the other deleted answer; Shady Stencils seems to carry the prints now. – Russell Borogove Oct 15 '21 at 21:12
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