NASA demolishes historic Saturn V and space shuttle test facilities at Marshall Space Flight Center
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Summary
NASA has demolished two historic test facilities at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama that were crucial to the development of the Saturn V rocket and space shuttle. The Propulsion and Structural Test Facility (built 1957) and Dynamic Test Facility (built 1964) were brought down in coordinated demolitions, marking the end of structures that played key roles in America's space program from the Space Age through the shuttle era.
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· 3 pulledTwo historic NASA test facilities used in the development of the Saturn V and space shuttle launch vehicles have been demolished after towering over the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama since the start of the Space Age.
The Propulsion and Structural Test Facility, which was erected in 1957—the same year the first artificial satellite entered Earth orbit—and the Dynamic Test Facility, which has stood since 1964, were brought down by a coordinated series.
Two large structures that once were key to NASA's successes in orbit and at the moon have fallen back to 'earth' at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.
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