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an engineering feat of our time the
Apollo Saturn 5 is ready to go

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the flight termed the Apollo 4 mission will take place
shortly from the National Aeronautics

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and Space Administration Kennedy Space
Center in Florida

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Apollo Saturn is the mammoth combination
of the Apollo spacecraft and the three

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stage SaturnV by a vehicle conceived
here at NASA's Marshall Space Flight

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Center
from the drawing board to finish product,

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that has been unique job of thousands of
engineer many of them the same old-time

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Rocketeer who built the Redstone, Jupiter,
and Saturn I

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Saturn management is centered at the
Marshall Center where much of the first

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stage development work was also done
computers and sophisticated machines are

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vital tools to rocket developers allowing
them to do their jobs more efficiently

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more quickly and with greater accuracy
operating room sterile clean rooms are a

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part of the everyday scene at the rocket
Development Center for his hero the

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guidance in control propellents
systems and particle free systems are

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put together
welding 33 foot diameter aluminum tanks

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has produced welding and metallurgy
change

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the first stage for this vehicle and the
one to follow were assembled by the

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Marshall Center and the Boeing Company
at the Huntsville space installation.

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second stage fabrication takes place at
the North American Rockwell seal Beach

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California facility
and mcdonnell-douglas corporation makes

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the third stage at Huntington Beach California
IBM Huntsville makes the instrument unit

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the brain of the vehicle. the three hundred
thousand pound booster is secured to this

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massive stand for captive tests of his liquid oxygen

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kerosene propellant system
loud and hot five Rocketdyne F-1 engines

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send their throaty roar across the Tennessee
Valley engines are gimbled, valves move

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temperatures check
all test data is recorded in a nearby

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control center for evaluation
less dramatic but as important for the

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tests following captive firing computer
control test check the stages closely to

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determine if everything is working
properly.

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the booster is loaded on the nasa barge
Poseidon for the 2,000 mile trip down

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the Tennessee, Ohio, and Mississippi
rivers across the Gulf and into Cape

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Kennedy
now the 363 foot tall Apollo Saturn 5

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awaits the signal to thunder into space
more than five years after it became a

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Space Agency program
soon the fully fueled six million pound