Re: New Year's day at the Cape

From: Jud McCranie (youknowwhat.mccranie_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 00:45:34 -0500

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 22:01:25 -0600, Herb Schaltegger
<herb.schaltegger@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

>Really? Well, I guess it's not too surprising, as it has been
>recently restored and put under a roof. When I worked in Huntsville
>11 or 12 years ago, the Saturn V was in decent shape and you could
>walk right up to it, as close as maybe four or five feet away. How
>far away do you have to stand now?

I was in Huntsville last spring. I don't think you can get that close
to the one in Huntsville now - there is a fence around it. You can
get about that close to the first stage engines, though. You can get
right under the one at KSC, for it's whole length. 

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