Vol. 35, No. 2 Spaceport News John F. Kennedy Space Center Mission update America's gateway to the universe. Leading the world in preparing and launching missions to planet Earth and beyond. February 2, 1996 (See SATURN V, Page 6) Landing date, time: March 7, 7:38 a.m. at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility Mission: STS-75 on Columbia Launch date, time: Feb. 22, 3:08 p.m. from Launch Pad 39B Synopsis: The seven- member international STS- 75 crew will conduct scientific investigations with both the Tethered Satellite System-1R (TSS-1R) and United States Microgravity Payload-3 (USMP-3) primary payloads during the 75th Space Shuttle mission. Beneath the seven layers of paint and years of corrosion that have accumulated on the Saturn V rocket located just south of the Vehicle Assembly Building, historians hope to uncover evidence about where each piece originated and how they came to rest at Kennedy Space Center. Four representatives from the Smithsonian Institution’s Na- tional Air and Space Museum (NASM) recently spent several days at KSC overseeing the first phase of the cleaning, preserva- tion and stabilization of the rocket. When it is completed this spring, the Saturn V will be relocated to the new multimillion dollar Apollo/Saturn V Center located near the Banana Creek Viewing Site. The preservation project and the new center are being paid for by revenues from the public visitor program at Spaceport USA. The rocket, one of only three remaining, is on indefinite loan to KSC from the NASM. The other two rockets are at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, and the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. Preservation work began in mid-January when the first stage of the launch vehicle was moved back about 12 feet to make room for a protective tent which was placed over the remaining stages. When con- tractors from Thomarios Paint- ing, the company selected by Spaceport USA concessionaire Delaware North Park Services for the rocket restoration, began the initial cleaning, the tough task of documenting the history of the remaining stages became apparent. “There is extensive damage to almost every stage,” said Al Bachmeier, NASM’s deputy assistant director for Collections Management. Bachmeier, Frank Winter, curator of Rock- etry for NASM, Scott Wirz, museum technician, and Bayne Rector, NASM chemist, pored over the rocket’s three stages as the cleaning began, looking for additional clues to the vehicle’s origins. Serial numbers have been painted over or worn off and records scattered to na- tional archives across the United States. Mission: NEAR expendable vehicle launch on a McDonnell Douglas Delta II rocket Launch date, time: Feb. 16, 3:53 p.m. from Launch Complex 17, Pad B, Cape Canaveral Air Station Mission synopsis: The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) will measure the composi- tion and structure of the asteroid Eros and provide fundamental information about objects that make close encounter with Earth. 51-L crew remembered Saturn V preservationists dust off clues to rocket's past By Barb Compton Mission: STS-72 on Endeavour Landing date, time: 2:41 a.m., Jan. 20, 1996, at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility THE SATURN V located near the Vehicle Assembly Building is under wraps for protection from the elements as preservation efforts are underway. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER commem- orated the 10th anniversary of the Challenger accident Jan. 29 with 73 seconds of silence followed by a flyover of T-38 jets by members of the astronaut corps and the dropping of a wreath at sea by Launch Director Jim Harrington. A similar observance was held simul- taneously at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. The actual anniversary date of Jan. 28 was marked by observances planned by The Astronauts Memorial Foundation and the City of Titusville. In the photo at left the T- 38 jets fly over Spaceport USA during the Jan. 28 ceremony. For more photos, see page 3.
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Vol. 35, No. 2
Spaceport NewsJohn F. Kennedy Space Center
Mission update
America's gateway to the universe. Leading the world in preparing and launching missions to planet Earth and beyond.
February 2, 1996
(See SATURN V, Page 6)
Landing date, time: March 7,7:38 a.m. at Kennedy SpaceCenter's Shuttle Landing Facility
Mission: STS-75 onColumbia
Launch date, time: Feb. 22,3:08 p.m. from Launch Pad39B
Synopsis: The seven-member international STS-75 crew will conductscientific investigations withboth the Tethered SatelliteSystem-1R (TSS-1R) andUnited States MicrogravityPayload-3 (USMP-3)primary payloads during the75th Space Shuttle mission.
Beneath the seven layers ofpaint and years of corrosion thathave accumulated on the SaturnV rocket located just south ofthe Vehicle Assembly Building,historians hope to uncoverevidence about where eachpiece originated and how theycame to rest at Kennedy SpaceCenter.
Four representatives from theSmithsonian Institution’s Na-tional Air and Space Museum(NASM) recently spent severaldays at KSC overseeing the firstphase of the cleaning, preserva-tion and stabilization of therocket. When it is completed thisspring, the Saturn V will berelocated to the new multimilliondollar Apollo/Saturn V Centerlocated near the Banana CreekViewing Site.
The preservation project andthe new center are being paidfor by revenues from the publicvisitor program at SpaceportUSA. The rocket, one of onlythree remaining, is on indefiniteloan to KSC from the NASM.The other two rockets are at theMarshall Space Flight Center inHuntsville, AL, and the JohnsonSpace Center in Houston, TX.
Preservation work began in
mid-January when the firststage of the launch vehicle wasmoved back about 12 feet tomake room for a protective tentwhich was placed over theremaining stages. When con-tractors from Thomarios Paint-ing, the company selected bySpaceport USA concessionaireDelaware North Park Servicesfor the rocket restoration, beganthe initial cleaning, the toughtask of documenting the historyof the remaining stages becameapparent.
“There is extensive damageto almost every stage,” said Al
Bachmeier, NASM’s deputyassistant director for CollectionsManagement. Bachmeier,Frank Winter, curator of Rock-etry for NASM, Scott Wirz,museum technician, and BayneRector, NASM chemist, poredover the rocket’s three stages asthe cleaning began, looking foradditional clues to the vehicle’sorigins. Serial numbers havebeen painted over or worn offand records scattered to na-tional archives across theUnited States.
Mission: NEAR expendablevehicle launch on a McDonnellDouglas Delta II rocket
Launch date, time: Feb. 16,3:53 p.m. from Launch Complex17, Pad B, Cape Canaveral AirStation
Mission synopsis: The NearEarth Asteroid Rendezvous(NEAR) will measure the composi-tion and structure of the asteroidEros and provide fundamentalinformation about objects thatmake close encounter with Earth.
51-L crew remembered
Saturn V preservationists dust off clues to rocket's pastBy Barb Compton
THE SATURN V located near the Vehicle Assembly Building is under wraps for protectionfrom the elements as preservation efforts are underway.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER commem-orated the 10th anniversary of theChallenger accident Jan. 29 with 73seconds of silence followed by a flyoverof T-38 jets by members of the astronautcorps and the dropping of a wreath at seaby Launch Director Jim Harrington. Asimilar observance was held simul-taneously at the NASA Johnson SpaceCenter in Houston, TX. The actualanniversary date of Jan. 28 was markedby observances planned by TheAstronauts Memorial Foundation and theCity of Titusville. In the photo at left the T-38 jets fly over Spaceport USA during theJan. 28 ceremony. For more photos, seepage 3.
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Employees of the month
HONORED IN JANUARY are, from the left: Jim Neff, Installation Operations Directorate; Kim Cochrane,Administration Office; Donna Winchell, Comptroller's Office; James Fowler, Safety and Mission AssuranceDirectorate; Ember Smith, Deputy Director's Office; James Shaver, Payload Operations Directorate; PeggyParrish, Procurement Office; Mark Shugg, Shuttle Operations Directorate; Scott Colloredo, EngineeringDevelopment Directorate; and Marcia Groh-Hammond, Logistics Directorate.
MAXINE JOHNSON, secretary to Launch Director JimHarrington, was installed Jan. 13 as president of theTitusville Drove No. 183 of the Benevolent Patriotic Orderof Does. Handing the gavel over to Johnson is pastpresident Beverly Finn. The installation was held at theB.P.O. Elks Lodge in Titusville.
District to develop hiring prac-tices that include minorities.
The Medalla De Oro awardwhich Gamboa received was ac-companied by a $2,000 scholar-ship which was presented toAlbert Meza of the University ofHouston.
KSC played an active role inthe conference, sponsoring fourbooths and hosting participantsfor the night launch of STS-72on Jan. 11. The conference, withthe theme “Today’s Hispanics:Opening Minds Through Sci-ence and Engineering,” was heldJan. 9-13 in Lake Buena Vista.
Oscar Gamboa, the Hispanicprogram manager for the EqualOpportunity Program Office,was recently honored by the So-ciety of Mexican American En-gineers and Scientists (MAES)for his accomplishments withinthe Hispanic community.
Besides dramatically increas-ing the percentage of minorityengineers at Kennedy SpaceCenter, Gamboa has served ona Brevard County Commissiontask force to increase the par-ticipation of women and minori-ties in the county, and workedwith the Brevard County School
EUGENE HATTEN, JR., workforce diversity director for the Chrysler Corp., sponsor ofthe Medalla De Oro award, stands with winners, from left, Oscar Gamboa, Hispanicprogram manager, NASA-KSC; Margaret Gonzalez, publisher, GWR agency; and KeithMarrocco, Texas A&M student chapter faculty adviser. Not pictured is Richard Navarro,Northrop Grumman corporate employment director.
Gamboa honored at MAES conferencePRELAUNCH preparationsfor the Near Earth AsteroidRendezvous (NEAR) missionhave been proceedingsmoothly at Cape CanaveralAir Station. In the photoabove, NEAR is transportedfrom NASA Hangar AE to theSpacecraft Encapsulation andAssembly Facility (SAEF-2) atKennedy Space Center onJan. 25. There the spacecraftwas scheduled to be fueledwith its control propellant, thesolar arrays attached and themating to the solid propellantupper stage completed. At theleft, the second stage ishoisted onto the gantry atLaunch Complex 17 inpreparation for mating withthe Delta II first stage. NEARis scheduled for launch Feb.16 at 3:53 p.m.
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THE CREW of STS-73 take on a moredown-to-Earth mission as they appearon the television series "HomeImprovement" Tuesday, Feb. 13 at 9p.m. on ABC-TV (Channel 9). MissionCommander Ken Bowersox is picturedabove with the show's star Tim Allen.The episode, titled "Fear of Flying," willfeature footage shot while the crewwas on orbit. Other crew members whowill be featured are Catherine "Cady"Coleman, Kathryn Thorton, Fred Leslieand Al Sacco.
STS-73 crew takes to air wavesThe NASA Kennedy Manage-
ment Association plans to awardscholarships of at least $500each to promote educational op-portunities for high school se-niors, college and vocationalschool students who are aca-demically talented and whohave demonstrated a commit-ment to excellence.
Applications are due March15. To qualify, applicants mustbe a civil service employee, theirspouse or dependent. ContactMiguel Rodriguez at 867-3692.
NKMA announces$500 scholarships
KSC honors Challenger crew by looking toward future
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Era ends with closing of Hangar AOBy George Diller
An era ended on Jan. 29 when35 veteran spacecraft and ex-pendable vehicle launch teammembers of KSC and the JetPropulsion Laboratory gatheredat NASA Spacecraft Hangar AOto recognize and rememberNASA’s accomplishments inthat facility.
“We are faced with budgetcuts, downsizing and streamlin-ing and this is one of the victimsof that process,” said JohnConway, director of KSC Pay-load Operations. “Also, we areno longer flying the number ofscientific payloads we once did,”he added.
Payload processing has endedat Hangar AO, one of the mosthistorical processing facilities atCape Canaveral and KSC. Un-der budget pressure to close fa-cilities and unable to find or jus-tify the amount of money re-quired to replace an air han-dling system for its Class100,000 clean room, the decisionwas made to turn Hangar AOover to someone else. While nofirm decisions have been made,it appears that the hangar maytake on a new role in the cur-rent space era under the stew-ardship of the U.S. Air Force ora commercial launch servicescompany.
Pioneer 10 and 11, Surveyor,Lunar Orbiter, Mariner, PioneerVenus, Ulysses, Viking and Voy-ager are some of the most no-table payloads to pass throughthe hangar's doors.
The first payload to be pro-cessed there was Mariner 4, amission to orbit Mars launchedon an Atlas Agena rocket inNovember 1964. The last wasthe X-ray Timing Explorerlaunched aboard a Delta IIrocket in December 1995.
Bill Fletcher, in charge ofKSC payload processing facili-ties for most of the Hangar AOera, recalls that the hangar wasone of the most versatile with aclean room capable of handlingas many as five similar payloadsat a time. It also had space forthe associated ground checkoutstations and up to 72 payloadpersonnel.
The hangar also held a Mis-sion Control Center on the sec-ond floor from which theprogress of a spacecraft could befollowed after leaving Earth or-bit.
“It was a party to all plan-etary missions,” recalls SkipMackey, manager of telemetryfor expendable vehicles at KSC.
At the commemorative cer-emony, team members enjoyeda cake decorated with a blackborder and flanked with black
balloons and reminisced aboutthe high profile days which Han-gar AO enjoyed.
Tony Spear, now a JPL mis-sion manager for an upcomingMars flight, recalled having hispicture taken with former Presi-dent Lyndon Johnson at HangarAO in 1964. The JPL facilitymanager at the time, HankLevy, insisted that “LBJ is notexempted from donning cleanroom attire before entering thehigh bay.”
Dave Bragdon, a member ofthe KSC spacecraft team affec-tionately called “F-Troop,” re-calls the changes to the hangarwhen General James Abraham-son, NASA associate adminis-trator for Space Flight in the
mid-1980s, directed an upgradeto the facility, making it one ofthe most flexible and desirablefacilities on the Cape.
The upgrade also resulted ina change to an off-yellow colorfrom what had become the al-most legendary two-tone green.
KSC’s Terry Terhune, also aspacecraft veteran of the 1960sand 70s, closed the commemo-rative ceremony with one of hisfamous limericks:
“Farewell to the buildingcalled AO;
It processed planetaries solong ago;
Here before each mission wasgiven permission
to launch in an era only fewof us know.”
A TRUCK brings NASA's X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE) to Hangar AO for approximatelytwo months of checkout, testing and launch preparations in May 1995. The payloadwas the last processed in the facility.
Management changes announced at NASA centersNASA Administrator Daniel
Goldin recently announced topmanagement changes at severalNASA centers.
Dr. J. Wayne Littles wasnamed the new director of theMarshall Space Flight Center inHunstville, AL. Littles will as-sume the post Feb. 3. He cur-rently serves as the associateadministrator for the Office ofSpace Flight and he will replaceG. Porter Bridwell who an-nounced Jan. 11 he is retiringfrom NASA after 34 years of ser-vice.
“Dr. Littles has the necessarymanagerial and technical expe-rience to lead Marshall into the
21st century,” Goldin said. Asthe head of the Office of SpaceFlight, Littles directed both theSpace Shuttle and Space Stationprograms for NASA. Most re-cently he has been leading theeffort to consolidate Shuttle op-erations under a single primecontractor.
George Abbey has beennamed the new director of theJohnson Space Center in Hous-ton, TX. Goldin said that Abbey“has distinguished himself as aninnovator and pioneer at all lev-els of agency management.”
Abbey had been serving asacting director at Johnson sinceAugust 1995. He joined NASA
in 1967 as technical assistant tothe manager, Apollo SpacecraftProgram. He was appointeddeputy associate administratorfor Space Flight at NASA Head-quarters in March 1988 and as-cended to the position of seniordirector for Civil Service Policyfor the National Space Council,Executive Office of the Presi-dent in July 1991.
Dr. Henry McDonald willtake over as director of the AmesResearch Center in MountainView, CA, effective March 4.
“Dr. McDonald brings toAmes strong research experi-ence in information systems ap-plications, computational phys-
ics and aerodynamics, combinedwith technical and managerialskills that will reinforce NASA’scommitment to aeronauticaland space research for a stron-ger America,” Goldin said.
McDonald was formerly theassistant director of computa-tional sciences and professor ofmechanical engineering at theApplied Research Laboratory,Pennsylvania State University.He was also founder, presidentand chief executive officer of Sci-entific Research Associates,Inc., Glastonbury, CT, where hewas responsible for manage-
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Kennedy Space Center em-ployees routinely help eachother with challenges on the jobbut there is a select group whovolunteer their time to assistthose who feel they have been avictim of discrimination in theworkplace.
The KSC Equal OpportunityProgram Office (EO) offers peercounseling services to employ-ees who feel they have been dis-criminated against on the basisof race, color, religion, sex, age,national origin or physical ormental handicap.
The volunteer counselors aretrained in EEO law and coun-seling techniques and receiveperiodic update training. Theydo fact-finding and attempt toresolve employee complaints atthe lowest possible level.
If an individual feels theyhave been discriminatedagainst, they must contact acounselor within 45 days of thealleged incident. If resolution isnot achieved, the employee hasthe option of participating in anAlternative Dispute Resolutionprocess involving a manage-ment representative and an ap-pointed mediator. If resolutionis still not achieved, the em-ployee may then file a formalcomplaint.
The EEO counselors poten-tially save NASA tens of thou-sands of dollars a year in courtcosts, attorneys fees, and hoursof investigation and litigation byresolving complaints at the low-est possible level.
Brenda Willis, RM-SYS, andCedric Hill, TV-MSD, recently
those skills, combined with hisexperience negotiating legalsettlements, should enable himto serve his co-workers effec-tively as a counselor. “I want tomake social as well as techni-cal and managerial contribu-tions to the organization,” hesaid.
Pam Mullenix, 867-2552, cur-rently on special detail with theOffice of the Chief Counsel. Shehas worked at KSC since 1986and is considering going to lawschool. Mullenix volunteers toserve as a counselor because "it’san opportunity to help whenpeople need help,” she said.
Thomas Yensco, 867-9889, aquality engineering techniciansince 1989. Yensco has workedwith the government and in theAir Force reserve for 23 years.
During that time he said hehas seen the military evolvefrom a white-male-dominatedorganization to one that is morerepresentative of the country’sdiverse population. He is inter-ested in seeing the governmentachieve that mix while protect-ing those who have worked theirway through the system. Yenscohas a minor degree in psychol-ogy and said the position wouldgive him good training and “al-low me to give something back.”
The new counselors join RoseRayfield, 867-2622, PA-PSE;Bob Deliwala, 867-7969, DM-MED, Joe Gacek, 799-7262, RM-ENG, and Betty Valentine, 867-3749, CM-PMO, to complete thevolunteer staff. Counselors canbe contacted directly or throughthe EEO office, 867-2307.
EEO counselors help co-workers deal with discrimination issues
FROM THE LEFT are new EEO counselors Louise Boyd, Frank Merceret and ConnieDobrin, retiring counselor Brenda Willis, new counselor Thomas Yensco, counselorsBetty Valentine and Rose Rayfield, and new counselor Pam Mullenix.
retired from the group. Willisserved for more than 23 yearsand was among the first volun-teer counselors.
The Equal Opportunity Pro-gram Office recently added fivenew counselors for a total ofnine. Counselors get involved formany reasons, from a basic con-cern for people to the utilizationof special skills and training.
The new counselors are:Louise Boyd, 867-7881, man-
agement analyst and programmanager for civil service salariesand benefits in the WorkforceManagement Office. Boyd hasworked for NASA since July of1982. She said she got involvedinitially because of her interestin people.
“I like people -- I interfaceheavily with the personnel sideof the house so it seemed like anatural transition.”
Connie Dobrin, 867-3431,property administrator in theProcurement Mission SupportOffice. Dobrin started workingat KSC nearly 20 years ago. Af-ter hours she volunteers as acounselor at a rape crisis center.“I’m interested in the problemspeople have,” she said. “I wantto understand — to listen bet-ter.”
Frank Merceret, 867-2666,chief of the Applied MeteorologyUnit and deputy to the lead ofthe KSC Weather Office.Merceret came to KSC in 1991after working for the NOAAEnvironmental Research Lab-oratory’s Hurricane ResearchDivision and then practicing lawfor seven years as a criminalprosecutor for the State ofFlorida in Miami. He worked asan EEO counselor when he waswith NOAA and he said that
Ombudsman program establishedto address procurement concerns
A new NASA OmbudsmanProgram has been created toaddress the procurement con-cerns of NASA contractors be-fore they become problems.
The idea for this program wasconceived when NASA Admin-istrator Daniel Goldin made acommitment to NASA contrac-tors to establish a program toimprove communication be-
tween government and indus-try. The intent is to provideofferors, potential offerors andcontractors with a single pointof contact to address their con-cerns if issues arise.
The Agency-wide ombuds-man is Tom Luedtke, 202/358-3082.
Deputy Director Gene Thomas,867-2355, is representing KSC.
ment of the company’s compu-tational physics laboratory.
Dr. Ken Munechika, cur-rently director of Ames, hasbeen named to the newly-cre-ated position as director of theMoffett Federal Airfield, effec-tive March 4.
"This move represents theincreasing importance ofCalifornia's Moffett Field to itscurrent and future occupantsand to the Silicon Valley," Goldin
said. Munechika will be respon-sible for seeing that the residentagencies and Ames are providedwith all the services normallyassociated with a federal air-field.
Goddard Space Flight CenterDirector Joseph Rothenberg an-nounced that Alphonso Diaz hasbeen named deputy director ofthat center, effective Feb. 4.Diaz previously served asdeputy associate administratorfor Space Science at NASAHeadquarters.
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Spaceport News The Spaceport News is an official publication of the Kennedy SpaceCenter and is published on alternate Fridays by the Public Affairs Officein the interest of KSC civil service and contractor employees. Contributions are welcome and should be submitted two weeks be-fore publication to the Media Services Branch, PA-MSB.
number immediately uponpoking his head into the door-way. NASM belives the modulewas originally part of boilerplateseries 18, created for swing armand umbilical tests at KSC. Thatboilerplate was taken apart andused as part of boilerplateseries 30 which was created asa backup for Apollo 6.
The first step in the preserva-tion is a pressure cleaning witha disinfectant and a generalcleaning solution to removemold and mildew. The next stepis to spray the rocket with abaking soda mixture — amethod known as Armex.Bachmeier said it is the first timethe Smithsonian has used sucha method for a museum objectbut that it seems to work wellexcept for the extremely dam-aged areas.
Most of the damage appearsto be corrosion of the aluminumskin from salty air and humidity.But paintings every three yearswith oil-based enamel haveprovided some protection fromthe elements, he said.
Once the pressure cleaningand the Armex process arecomplete, the vehicle will becleaned with deionized water toremove chlorides and contami-nants. The cleaning, whichbegan in the middle of January,was expected to last threeweeks. Then the vehicle will bepainted with an industrial qualitypolyurethane paint to match theApollo 11 color scheme whichwas selected for the project byNASA and NASM. The Saturn Vwill be transported to the newfacility sometime this spring andfinal touch-ups will be com-pleted in the new building.
The 363-foot-tall vehicle isthe largest artifact ever restoredfor NASM and the only Saturn Vrocket to be placed in a con-trolled environment for preserva-tion. Anyone with any informa-tion on the vehicle is encour-aged to contact Scott Wirz at301-238-3149; Frank Winter at202-357-2828; or CarolCavanaugh, the KSC projectmanager for the Saturn V rocketpreservation and stabilization, atthe Public Affairs Visitor CenterBranch, 867-2363.
When the Saturn V vehicleswere no longer needed afterSkylab was launched in 1973,records were deposited innational archives facilities.Although paperwork exists toaccompany each piece of thehardware, much of it is inacces-sible because of the volume ofmaterial it was deposited with.Hardware was in such demandafter the success of the programthat it wasn’t uncommon forcomponents to be split up andsent to different locations.
Although the Smithsonianrepresentatives have been ableto piece together details on theorigins of the KSC vehicle, theyare eager to receive any addi-tional information to betterdocument where the piecescame from.
They have been able toprovide this accounting of eachof the stages and its knownhistory:
Stage 1 — The S-IC-T firststage booster is a ground-testvehicle. It is believed to havecome from the Marshall SpaceFlight Center. NASM is inter-ested in finding out what hap-pened to this stage between thetime the testing program wascompleted and its arrival at KSCin the mid-70s.
Stage 2 — NASM believesthe second stage (S-II) was fromthe vehicle intended to launchApollo 18, which was cancelled.They have had difficulty inconfirming this, however,because there is no evidence ofa serial number.
Stage 3 — The third stage (S-IV-B-500F) was originallymanufactured as the third stagefor the Saturn 1B vehicle andwas used in facilities tests in theVehicle Assembly Building andat the pad. The stage was latermodified to meet the Saturn Vthird stage configuration. It wasfurther modified for use in theSkylab program and NASMwould like to learn more aboutsome of those other uses.
The command modulerevealed a little more of itshistory — Wirz spotted a serial
KSC HOSTED its first Community Involvement Expo, sponsored by KSC Public Affairs,the Brevard Community Center and the Brevard Retired Senior Volunteer ProgramJan. 19 in the Operations and Checkout Building Mission Briefing Room. Thirty oneexhibitors from across the county displayed their services and gave employees theopportunity to match their skills with community needs.
KSC EMPLOYEES, guests and community leaders enjoy a preview of Spaceport USA'sPayload Processing Exhibit and Launch Status Center during opening festivities Dec.14. The exhibit features video of KSC employees talking about their payload processingroles as well as what working for the space program means to them.
