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Sitting idle since 1998, the 300-ft (91 m) tall, vertical-firing Test Stand 4670 was built in 1965 to support the development and testing of the Saturn V rocket that propelled the first and only ...
In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, the S-II stage of the Saturn V rocket is hoisted onto the A-2 test stand in January of 1967 at the Mississippi Test Facility, now the Stennis ...
In the Dynamic Test Stand at MSFC, the Saturn V test vehicle with the spacecraft on top, underwent more than 450 hours of shaking to gather data. Each weekday, SPACE.com looks back at the history ...
In 1967, a Saturn V first stage, with F-1 engines at its base, is hoisted onto a test stand at the Mississippi Test Facility. It was very foggy, but there was a bunch of fishermen out.
A Saturn V rocket being rolled out to the launch pad for Apollo 10. ... The first stage of a Saturn V rocket is hoisted into position for a shake test at the Saturn V Dynamic Test Stand in 1966.
Like many of the other test stands at Stennis, the A-2 stand was originally built in the 1960s to test Saturn V rocket engines. From 1976, NASA used the stand to test Space Shuttle main engines ...
Jan. 15 (UPI) --NASA plans to ignite one of the largest and most powerful rockets ever built, the Space Launch System core stage, for an eight-minute test firing Saturday. Ignition of the moon ...
It was used to test fire the first stage of the Saturn V rocket, modified in 1974 to test the space shuttle’s external tank and later used to test a modified shuttle engine.
The stand, which was used to test turbopumps for Saturn first stage engines, has been on standby status since 1969.
Phil Sumrall was a junior engineer working at the Dynamic Test Stand.He worked to verify the flight worthiness of the Saturn 5. But on the day of the Apollo 11 launch his duties were over and he told ...
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