Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Saturn V (was Re: Space Shuttle Enterprise)
Message-ID: <1991May11.222642.10116@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 11 May 1991 22:26:42 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.195733.11534@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1991Apr25.203708.20989@aio.jsc.nasa.go <1991Apr26.133342.21112@infonode.ingr.com> <1991May10.173923.6272@pixar.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991May10.173923.6272@pixar.com> aaa@pixar.com (Tony Apodaca) writes:
>>... in Huntsville Al...  Right next to it is the mockup
>>of the Saturn V.
>
>	Sad to say, this Saturn V is not a mockup.  It is the real thing.

Well, almost.  It is a "test article", done as a dress rehearsal for the
production facilities and used for ground testing.  It was never considered
flight-ready, although it probably could have been flown in a pinch.

(How do I know?  I read the sign in front of it, which says "test article"
explicitly.)

The two ex-flight-ready Saturn Vs are the ones at KSC and JSC.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry