Re: Scrapping of Saturn-V

In article <4473def7.143650656@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Derek Lyons <fairwater@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We had occasional problems with that ourselves... Specifically cable
assemblies for the MTRE MK6 that were procured and placed into storage
for spares back during the initial acquisition and deployment in the
early 70's. Fast forward 15 years and the cables had acquired a 'set'
from being bagged and stored on a shelf, rendering them unuseable...

A Saturn example of this is that after only a few years of storage, the
Saturn IBs for Skylab needed non-trivial repairs for stress corrosion in
some areas of their structure. Could easily have been worse for the
Saturn V, or for its tooling.
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