Space News
space history and artifacts articles

Messages
space history discussion forums

Sightings
worldwide astronaut appearances

Resources
selected space history documents

  collectSPACE: Messages
  Space History Photo of the Week
  Photo of the week 911 (April 9, 2022)

Post New Topic  Post A Reply
profile | register | preferences | faq | search

next newest topic | next oldest topic
Author Topic:   Photo of the week 911 (April 9, 2022)
heng44
Member

Posts: 3576
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001

posted 04-08-2022 12:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

The eighth firing of the S-1-T booster on June 15, 1960. This was the first Saturn rocket stage built by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) and the first to be test-fired. In total it was static fired 31 times. The stage was recently scrapped after being stored at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, since the early 1960s. MSFC tried to offer it to any museum or educational institution that was willing to pay the shipping cost, but there were no interested parties.

micropooz
Member

Posts: 1626
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003

posted 04-08-2022 04:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for micropooz   Click Here to Email micropooz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great photo Ed! There is also a picture postcard that shows this test setup albeit prior to the S-1-T firing. I always marveled that they took the risk of hanging a Juno launch vehicle on the other side of the test stand from the S-1-T stage. It's efficient to be able to test more than one vehicle with one test stand but, boy if something went "boom" on either side, very risky for the other.

And sad that no museum took the S-1-T test stage...

All times are CT (US)

next newest topic | next oldest topic

Administrative Options: Close Topic | Archive/Move | Delete Topic
Post New Topic  Post A Reply
Hop to:

Contact Us | The Source for Space History & Artifacts

Copyright 2022 collectSPACE.com All rights reserved.


Ultimate Bulletin Board 5.47a





advertisement