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Topic: Pad 39A/B damage after Saturn V launch
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Paul78zephyr
Member Posts: 298
From: Hudson, MA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted May 24, 2012 03:47 PM
  
Are there any published photos and descriptions of the damage to launch pads 39A/B after a Saturn V launch? |
mikej
Member Posts: 316
From: Germantown, WI USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted May 24, 2012 05:51 PM
The Saturn V Flight Evaluation Reports, or at least the early ones (where things like that were still a novelty) have descriptions of pad damage.For example, the Saturn V Launch Vehicle Flight Evaluation Report: AS-501 Apollo 4 mission on page 3-15 (page 81 in the PDF) has half a page of description of pad damage. |
Headshot
Member Posts: 29
From: Streamwood, IL USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted May 24, 2012 08:03 PM
The Aviation Week & Space Technology issue for 6 September 1971, pages 38 & 39, has photos and a brief discussion of the damage caused by the Apollo 15 launch. |
Apollo-Soyuz
Member Posts: 805
From: Shady Side, Md
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted May 25, 2012 05:33 AM
In the Spacecraft Films' DVD on the Saturn V, you can get a feel for the fury of a Saturn V launch with the pad camera films and see the aftermath of a launch. |
J.L
Member Posts: 294
From: Bloomington, Illinois, USA
Registered: May 2005
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posted May 25, 2012 08:44 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Paul78zephyr:
Are there any published photos and descriptions of the damage to launch pads 39A/B after a Saturn V launch?
I have 10 shots that were taken after the Apollo 4 launch. Seems these type of photos rarely made it into the mainstream but I am working on it. Below are two showing Pad 39A after the first Saturn V launch.   |
Rick Boos
Member Posts: 807
From: Celina,Ohio U.S.A.
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted May 26, 2012 08:48 AM
I obtained routine pad damage shots from the mechanical systems division at NASA. My photos are all from space shuttle launches including the Challenger 51-L mission and a number of the earlier missions. Damage shows elevator doors blown off, phones ripped apart, MLP camera damage shots, fire bricks missing, and cracks on the deck of the MLP. All the photos are in color. I might add I visited Pad 39B right after the disaster. What I found interesting was the amount of powder that was left behind from the SRBs. Also noticed flood light damage, and of course pipe damage due to the ice conditions that day. Also have black and white shots of modifications to Pads 39A and B from Apollo to shuttle, and also of the rebuilding of the MLPs. All these photos were obtained from the mechanical systems division. The conversion photos were going to be tossed out by NASA and I was given a box full of them, so I'm not sure what if any NASA kept of pad damage during Apollo. More then likely they have been archived. |
APG85
Member Posts: 169
From:
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted May 26, 2012 08:43 PM
Can you post some of those pictures? |
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