Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: SATURN V BOOSTERS
Message-ID: <1988Mar17.001420.897@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <21644@bbn.COM> <5129@uwmcsd1.UUCP> <1988Mar9.180720.618@utzoo.uucp>, <2097@phred.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 88 00:14:20 GMT

> Henry: I don't believe there is a Saturn V in storage at Marshall. If there
> were, it would have been included on the tour they give there. 

Hm, you're right, it probably would be, and it isn't.  I probably have the
location wrong.  I know it's around somewhere; I remember being irked that
the one selected for national-monument status and protected storage wasn't
one of the ex-flight-ready ones.

Incidentally, by chance the other day I ran across some more minor details
of Saturn V history:  Skylab went up on Apollo 20's Saturn, with Apollo 18's
earmarked to launch the second Skylab (later relegated to being a backup,
still later retired to the Smithsonian).  Also, one of the two ex-flight-
ready ones is actually a composite one:  the first Skylab was built from
a spare third stage, but the second Skylab used the Apollo 18 third stage.
Presumably the third stage accompanying the rest of the Apollo 18 bird
is the one from Apollo 20.
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