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to perform our nation's most ambitious

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exploration of this decade a manned

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exploration of the moon the Saturn 5

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space vehicle is under development by

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NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and

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the country's industrial might at

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Huntsville Alabama the Saturn 5 booster

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is undergoing captive firings to assure

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the proper flight performance of these

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enormous Rockets exacting tests are

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conducted long before flight time this

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stage alone is 140 feet long and 33 feet

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in diameter the full Saturn 5 vehicle

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will stand 364 feet tall higher than the

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Statue of Liberty this first stage

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fueled will weigh almost 5 million

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pounds the stand where the hot firings

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are conducted is anchored in bedrock in

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the ground to withstand the powerful

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thrust of 7 and 1/2 million pounds

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during firing here the 140 ton unfilled

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stage arrives at the static test site

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the five huge f1 engines have not yet

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been attached to erect this stage the

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world's largest and most powerful the

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stand has two cranes which will place

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the vehicle in its firing position the

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delicate job begins lifting of the stage

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into the test and when in place

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instrumentation is connected to all

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parts of the booster to record results

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of the test over 1200 channels of

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measurements will be transmitted to the

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recording instruments in the blockhouse

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located a safe distance from the stand

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complete control of the test is

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maintained by personnel in the

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blockhouse the propellant tanks will be

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filled with four million four hundred

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thousand pounds of kerosene and liquid

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oxygen the life of this stage in flight

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will be two and 1/2 minutes after it

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boosts the upper stages and the three

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astronauts in the Apollo spacecraft to

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five thousand miles an hour

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at an altitude of 40 miles the booster

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will be separated and discarded the

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upper stages then take over the mission

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of sending the astronauts to the moon

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and to outer space the five huge engines

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are next installed and checked out

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during the test firing the outer four

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engines are gimballed to test their

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capability for guiding the Saturn 5

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during an actual flight the test time

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has arrived water is run through the