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50 years ago the last Saturn rocket rolled out of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building
Half a century later, there's a Moon rocket behind those same doors It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled ...
Mirage News3 天
Final Saturn Rocket Rolls Out To Launch Pad 39
On March 24, 1975, the last in a long line of super successful Saturn rockets rolled out from the vehicle assembly building ...
Smithsonian Magazine4 年
Launch Complex 39: From Saturn to Shuttle to SpaceX and SLS
The last astronauts to lift off from the Air Force side were the Apollo 7 crew on a Saturn IB from LC-34 in October 1968. The Moon landing challenge immediately confronted NASA, however ...
The Hindu2 年
A test flight with a number of firsts
A suborbital test flight, its goals included demonstrating the Saturn IB’s capabilities, the operation of Apollo Service Module’s (SM) main engine, and determining the effectiveness of the ...
Hackaday8 年
Decoding Rediscovered Rope Memory From The Apollo Guidance Computer
On August 25th, 1966, an Apollo Command Module was launched aboard a Saturn IB rocket in mission AS-202. This mission was intended to immediately precede the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission ...