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  • Our spaceflight heritage: A conversation with Fred Haise

    Scott JohnsonDecember 24th, 2021

    Spaceflight Insider spoke with Fred Haise after a ceremony commemorating the 2020 designation of the A-1 Test Stand after the Apollo 13 astronaut.

  • Our SpaceFlight Heritage: 50 years since the first full Saturn V test fire

    James RiceApril 16th, 2015

    Fifty years ago, on April 16, 1965, the full power of the Saturn V was felt for the first time in a test stand firing of the cluster of five F-1 first stage (S-IC) engines at NASA’s Marshall Spaceflight Center located in Huntsville, Alabama. The five F-1 engines burned for 6.5 seconds and produced 7.5 […]