Re: Saturn 1/1B Extant Hardware

Ed Kyle wrote:
> Herb Schaltegger wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 14:05:47 -0500, Ed Kyle wrote
> > (in article
> > <1120590347.071741.239800@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
> >
> > > SIVB-211 (displayed as dummy Skylab just left of Saturn V) at
> > > Huntsville, AL
> > >
> >
"http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=4&S=8&Z=16&X=10632&Y=7681
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> >
> > Has that always been displayed that way? I don't remember it at
> > all. Didn't there used to be an engineering mockup of the Skylab
> > workshop inside the main hall of Space and Rocket Center? Or am I
> > mis-remembering? I used to have a few dozen photos of all the stuff
> > there in the early 90's, but they disappeared during the divorce.
> > :-/
>
> Until 1979, this S-IVB stage appears to have been
> displayed horizontally with the SA-211 first stage
> on the grounds of Marshall Space Flight Center.
> It would have moved to the museum after the first
> stage was moved to Ardmore in 1980 or so.
>
> There is a chance that SA-211 may have been shipped
> to Japan for a couple of years during the mid-1970s,
> but I've never been able to confirm this.

It is the SA 209 shipped at kaan expo during mid 1970

>
> The SA-T stage at the MSFC test area is the oldest
> and, in my opinion, most historic Saturn. It was
> the very first Saturn that performed 31 static test
> firings on the East Tower, for example. This is the
> booster that von Braun and Co. would have spent more
> time tinkering with than any other. This was the
> hardware that taught them how to build big rockets.
>
> SA-T is unquestionably in worse shape, exterior-
> wise, than any other Saturn hardware I've seen - and
> I've seen almost all of them now. But SA-T also
> seems to have been preserved better, in some ways,
> than other Saturn stages. It was hardly modified
> for display, like SA-211, so it appears much the same
> way it did the last time MSFC personnel turned a bolt
> on it. It has a complete set of early H-1 engines all
> in their proper places, for example, and it has
> turbopump exhaust ducts that are not present on other
> displayed boosters, etc. It still has a 120 inch
> diameter interstage truss part designed to support
> the orignally planned Titan second stage! It has
> holes drilled in it that show where some brackets
> were originally positioned, then repositioned, etc.
> It has patches riveted over patches. A technological
> historian could spend a career on it, I suspect.
>
> - Ed Kyle

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