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"Mississippi Test Facility, National Aeronautics And Space Administration, Hancock County. The huge S-IC-4, fourth flight stage of first stage booster rocket of the Saturn V space vehicle, spews smoke and flames as it was static test fired at MTF. The big 138-foot rocket, burning liquid oxygen and RP-1 kerosene, developed 7.5 million pounds of thrust during the static firing conducted by the Boeing Company test crew. MTF is a component of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama." View of rocket engines during testing. Side 1.
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"Mississippi Test Facility, National Aeronautics And Space Administration, Hancock County. The huge S-IC-4, fourth flight stage of first stage booster rocket of the Saturn V space vehicle, spews smoke and flames as it was static test fired at MTF. The big 138-foot rocket, burning liquid oxygen and RP-1 kerosene, developed 7.5 million pounds of thrust during the static firing conducted by the Boeing Company test crew. MTF is a component of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama." View of rocket engines during testing. Side 1.
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- Description: "Mississippi Test Facility, National Aeronautics And Space Administration, Hancock County. The huge S-IC-4, fourth flight stage of first stage booster rocket of the Saturn V space vehicle, spews smoke and flames as it was static test fired at MTF. The big 138-foot rocket, burning liquid oxygen and RP-1 kerosene, developed 7.5 million pounds of thrust during the static firing conducted by the Boeing Company test crew. MTF is a component of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama." View of rocket engines during testing. Side 1.
- Creator(s): National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Mississippi Test Facility
- Date: 1968
- City/State: Mississippi
- County: Hancock County
- Call Number: PI/2008.0001
- Filename: 119044-photo-1.tif