Article-I.D.: utzoo.5233
Posted: Wed Mar 13 16:48:56 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 13-Mar-85 16:48:56 EST
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> You presume correctly. Three Saturn Vs were built (for Apollos 18, 19,
> and 20) and never used. One is on display (on its side) at the Johnson
> Space Center, and I believe the other two are at Kennedy and Huntsville.
Almost right. One of the three left-over flight-ready Saturn Vs was
used to launch Skylab, or rather the bottom two stages of it were so
used. I believe the Huntsville Saturn V is actually a non-flying test
article. The KSC and JSC ones are/were real flight-ready boosters.
> I might question the structural integrity, though, after 15 years of
> sitting around outside.
Especially at the Cape, where salt-water corrosion has already damaged
some of the old launch towers beyond repair. I believe the Huntsville
Saturn V has been designated for special preservation efforts, as a
national historical object or something like that. But it's most unlikely
that any of them will ever be flyable again.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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