Nov 172014
 

“On October 14, 1966, a “boilerplate” full Saturn V and Apollo spacecraft stack inside the Vehicle Assembly Building is rocked back and forth by employees pushing with their feet and pulling with a rope so that stability and stresses which might result from winds at the launch pad can be measured. During the test the escape tower at the top of the Saturn V broke off and fell, but no one was injured.”

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How tennis shoes and tug-of-war toppled the mighty Saturn V

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