One of the test stands at the Stennis Test Site formerly known as the Mississippi Test Site. Aerial view of Stennis.
At the top are pictures of engine/stage testing. Every stage and engine is thoroughly tested for our space programs. I wish that I could show everyone a video of our stage (the S-IC) being test fired in the 1960s.
This video is so dramatic it is hard to believe. I am going to work on that and hope to have something posted soon.
Hi Sara, I love your blog. I was 6 when Apollo 11 landed and the Apollo project filled the lives of me and my friends for a long time. A couple of years (maybe more) after much wrangling my father allowed me to join a book club so I could get three books, one was a dictionary, one I don't remember but the final one was a small badly written, badly printed book about the (must have been prelaunch) space station. In those "pre-teen boys own" years NASA cut deep.
ReplyDeleteI have only one suggestion for your blog - have you thought of choosing a different template - the small letters are just a little hard to make out against the background.
Thank you, bad base for your kind comments. I am happy to find someone else that loves Apollo. There are now many, many books about Apollo. Look on Amazon.com and Abe Books.com. I feel very alone because people today do not seem to care about the greatest achievement in the history of mankind. As to another template, I can fix the size of the type any time. I will do so when I can. Thank you again.
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