Re: Scrapping of Saturn-V


Rusty wrote:
August 2, 1968 - NASA announced the halt of work on Saturn IB vehicles
numbered
215 and 216. The agency also instructed contractors to disontinue
work on Saturn V "follow-on" vehicles 516 and 517. The curtailment
was an economy move.

August 7, 1968 - Chrysler removed S-IB-12, the final approved Saturn IB
booster,
from the STTE at MSFC and prepared it for shipment to MAF. This
operation completed Chrysler's activities at STTE.

They must have eventually found money to finish S-IB-13 and S-IB-14,
because I found a photo of a completed S-IB-14 filed at MSFC a few
months ago. Here it is:

"http://www.geocities.com/launchreport/sa214.html";

- Ed Kyle

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