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In-depth Look At An LVCD Board From A Saturn V Rocket
As part of her personal collection she somehow acquired a Launch Vehicle Digital Computer board for a Saturn V rocket. This particular unit was never used. But it would have been had the Apollo ...
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft releases first close-up photos of Saturn
An curved arrow pointing right. At just 240,000 miles from Saturn's north pole, NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped some stunning photos. These are the first images of the spacecraft's new mission ...
OTD In Space - November 9: Saturn V Launches On Maiden Voyage With Apollo 4
On 9, 1967, NASA launched the powerful new Saturn V rocket on its maiden voyage. The Saturn V was 363 feet tall. That's ...
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Deconstructing Apollo Flight Hardware
[Fran] has been researching the Saturn V Launch Vehicle Digital Computer – the computer that flew all the Apollo flights into orbit and onwards towards the moon – for a while now. Even though ...
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Nasa's new 'megarocket' set for critical tests
Sometimes compared to the iconic Saturn V, can the Space Launch System (SLS ... "One of the test cases, test case five, we ended up gimballing the engines - that's when we move them around ...
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Apollo 11: Four things you may not know about the first moon landing
1. Saturn V is still the largest and most powerful rocket ever built Standing at more than 100m (363ft), the Saturn V rocket burned some 20 tonnes of fuel a second at launch. Propellant accounted ...