Posted on 08/17/2019 7:06:37 PM PDT by njslim
Just in time for the 50th anniversary of NASA's Apollo 11 astronauts landing on the moon, the space agency has a very big piece of history it's looking to offload. The historic Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Alabama played a central role in developing the Saturn rockets that powered the Apollo rocket program, and apparently it had one of the earliest models just lying around after all these years. According to documents and emails obtained by CNET, MSFC "has excessed a Saturn 1 Block 1 Booster portion of a Saturn rocket stack up."
This is Block 1 , without the stabilizing fins of the later modules
The Saturn 1 was used to launch early model test capsules for the Apollo program
Wonder if could be refurbed and made flight ready again …….
Shipping and handling is a bit out of my price range.
I’ve got nowhere to store the thing.
Shipping and handling is a bit out of my price range.
I’ve got nowhere to store the thing.
*ping*
I need one of them! Wow, my lucky day. I was watching a film from George Melies which has inspired me for a project.
Gimme a week.
My old man’s got this MAD set of tools!!
That’s only five hours from here. I bet I could borrow my brother-in-law’s dualie and get it here in one piece. Make for one helluva centerpiece in the front yard.
I had heard they lost the plans. Couldn’t they have reverse engineered it from one of these leftovers?
I hope they at least looked at the designs prior to building the latest models...
“....I had heard they lost the plans.....”
Perhaps the PIAPs sold them to the communist Chinese?
I wonder what the HOA would say about that on my front lawn.
That’s a myth
Have everything both on paper and microfilm
Von Braun cobbled this together using parts from his REDZSTONE and JUPITER missiles
Used 8 H2 engines from Jupiter, 8 Redstone fuel tanks for kerosene with a tank from Jupiter in center for LOX
Was called “CLUSTERS LAST STAND” by those who did not think could work
Had a 100% launch record, incliding test launches of first stage only
Put it in my frount yard and hang the mailbox on it.
Remember those cars that look like Oscar Meyer weiners (hotdogs)?
Imagine what you could do with this thing!
Yep, my closets are full...
I could put in my front yard with an attached sign that says, “Seriously, GET OFF MY LAWN!”
I read that as NASA gives away Saturn.
I picked one up a garage sale. :^)
ping.
I wonder what I could get for it at the local scrap yard?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.