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- From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: First Saturn 5 Launch - 25 Years Ago Today
- Message-ID: <30402@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 21:26:44 GMT
- Organization: Alpha Science Computer Network, Denver, Co.
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- Twenty five years ago, 1967 November 9, the first launch,
- of the Saturn V, designated Apollo 4 ,took place from Merrit
- Island, Florida early in the morning. The dummy payload went
- into a nearly circular orbit of 300 km with an inclination
- of 32.6 degrees. Decay occurred the same day.
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- I got up before dawn to watch the TV coverage. The old TV
- had a vertical control problem and I had to turn it off and
- back on repeatly to get a picture--I felt like I had been
- part of the effort to get it into space.
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- With this first successful launch, the stage was set for
- the spectacular feats to occur in the next few years.
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- Bruce Watson (wats@scicom) Tumbra, Zorkovick; Sparkula zoom krackadomando.
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