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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Saturn Vs in mothballs
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Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 16:48:56 EST
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> You presume correctly.  Three Saturn Vs were built (for Apollos 18, 19,
> and 20) and never used.  One is on display (on its side) at the Johnson
> Space Center, and I believe the other two are at Kennedy and Huntsville.

Almost right.  One of the three left-over flight-ready Saturn Vs was
used to launch Skylab, or rather the bottom two stages of it were so
used.  I believe the Huntsville Saturn V is actually a non-flying test
article.  The KSC and JSC ones are/were real flight-ready boosters.

> I might question the structural integrity, though, after 15 years of
> sitting around outside.

Especially at the Cape, where salt-water corrosion has already damaged
some of the old launch towers beyond repair.  I believe the Huntsville
Saturn V has been designated for special preservation efforts, as a
national historical object or something like that.  But it's most unlikely
that any of them will ever be flyable again.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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