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This Week in NASA History: S-IC-T Arrives at Marshall – April 9, 1967

This week in 1967, the S-IC-T arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
This week in 1967, the S-IC-T arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

This week in 1967, the S-IC-T arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. The S-IC, or first, stage test article was stored in the Materials and Engineering Lab to await use in research and development testing. When completely assembled, the Saturn V S-IC stage was 138 feet tall, 33 feet in diameter and capable of delivering 7.5 million pounds of thrust from its five engines. Here, the forward end of the S-IC-T is seen on a transporter in Building 4705 at Marshall. The Saturn V rocket was designed at Marshall. Now through December 2022, NASA will mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Program that landed a dozen astronauts on the Moon between July 1969 and December 1972, and the first U.S. crewed mission – Apollo 8 – that circumnavigated the Moon in December 1968. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating and preserving NASA’s remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological and scientific aspects of NASA’s activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the Marshall History Program’s webpage. (NASA)