> Rumor has it that the Saturn V only had fins because Werner von Braun decided that a rocket without fins just didn't look right, and ordered the engineers to add them, even though they were so small with respect to the size of the rocket stack that they were very solidly inside the boundary layer and had no effect whatsoever.
Hah! Thanks for this tidbit, I had never stopped to think through their presence on the saturn 5, and absenece on other vehicles.
Hah! Thanks for this tidbit, I had never stopped to think through their presence on the saturn 5, and absenece on other vehicles.