Asri-unix.1282 net.space utzoo!decvax!cca!David.Smith@CMU-10A@sri-unix Thu Apr 22 08:58:28 1982 Another Saturn V query From: David.Smith at CMU-10A (C410DS30) If you look at a photograph of a Saturn V high in the atmosphere, but with the first stage still burning, it looks like the exhaust plume blossoms from quite a ways up the rocket, about from the top of the first stage. Can anyone explain this?