Quote from: Ronpur50 on 01/16/2018 05:46 pmThe Huntsville Saturn V is the only one with complete matching serial numbers so to speak, in that the entire Saturn is SA-500D. The others are a mix of Saturn V vehicles. Perhaps that is why they sent S-1C-T to KSC?A likely explanation. Huntsville also kept the dymanic test versions of the Saturn I Block I and Block II vehicles, which are displayed today. These dynamic test vehicles were fully assembled in their respective vertical test towers at MSFC. The unanswered question is why S-IC-T to KSC instead of S-IC-15, which ended up at Michoud and is today at Stennis, or even better the matching S-IC-14, which ended up at JSC? - Ed Kyle
The Huntsville Saturn V is the only one with complete matching serial numbers so to speak, in that the entire Saturn is SA-500D. The others are a mix of Saturn V vehicles. Perhaps that is why they sent S-1C-T to KSC?
OK, and now a new bit of information - something I did not know. S-IC-T was shipped from MSFC to KSC in 1974 (possibly during March), two full years before the bicentennial. It was displayed by itself for a time, outside the VAB. See a photo here:http://heroicrelics.org/info/ksc/vintage-ksc.htmlSo, S-IC-T was moved out for display three-plus years before NASA finally moved the two S-IC flight stages out of storage. Makes me think that timing was a factor. There was probably a process - much paper work, etc. - needed to disposition the Apollo program flight hardware. The Agency was "done" with S-IC-T a few years before it was done with the other stages. - Ed Kyle