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This Week in NASA History: Saturn V First Stage LOX Tank at Marshall – Nov. 4, 1964

This week in 1964, an assembled liquid oxygen tank for the Saturn V S-IC, or first stage.
This week in 1964, an assembled liquid oxygen tank for the Saturn V S-IC, or first stage, is photographed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

This week in 1964, an assembled liquid oxygen tank for the Saturn V S-IC, or first stage, is photographed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Here, the LOX tank can be seen with an “A” frame and transporter as it awaits mating to the stage’s fuel tank. 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 F-1 engines. Today, Marshall is developing NASA’s Space Launch System, the most powerful rocket ever built, capable of sending astronauts to the Moon, Mars and deeper into space than ever before. 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)