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From: wdh@hrshcx.UUCP (W. David Higgins)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Where are the remaining Saturn V boosters?
Message-ID: <385@hrshcx.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 88 00:27:37 GMT
References: <5052@uwmcsd1.UUCP>
Reply-To: wdh@hrshcx.UUCP (W. David Higgins)
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In article <5052@uwmcsd1.UUCP> markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:
>What is the status of the remaining Saturn V boosters?  From what I heard, they
>were practically being given away for under a million apiece.  This would be a
>great incentive to privately operated space missions.  Also, if they're being
>sold that cheaply I'd be intereseted in buying one 8-) 8-).

I doubt the goverment is selling, but with the deficit being what is is,
who knows :-( (ahem).  I know of three remaining Saturn V's: one at KSC,
one at Houston, and the third, 'owned' by the Smithsonian and located at
the Alabama Space Museum in Huntsville, Alabama.  All three are on public
display; none are close to flight ready.  The two interstage assemblies 
of the one at Huntsville have been converted into buildings(!).  One is 
used as the waiting area for an exhibit.  I was admiring this strange two 
story structure's construction from the inside once when it suddenly clicked 
that it was the 2nd-3rd interstage.

Aircraft quality construction in a building is a rarity in my experience :-)

In any case, there is only one launch facility for Saturn V's, and it would
take years to convert launch complex 39 back.  I wish I had seen a Saturn V
launch; it's too late now.
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