THIS PIC Is Enough To MAKE YOU CRY ! ! !
 

THIS PIC Is Enough To MAKE YOU CRY ! ! !


Dave F.

That's tragic! Where is it?

The ‘clean’ one looks like the one at the Huntsville Space and Rocket Center. The other looks like it is from the same ‘general’ area as the first, but it really is hard to imagine the Huntsville folks allowing it to get grown over THAT badly.

Earl

I think it may at the United States Space and Rocket Center, in Huntsvile, Alabama, but I can't believe they would allow that to happen to the F-1 !

A similar Photo is labelled "F1_USSRC_2007_RK_1" and searching brings up the Russian website

https://www.vif2ne.org/nvz/forum/arhprint/275956

The reference to THAT photo is almost at the BOTTOM of the page.

I am attempting to "backtrack" the photo of the "neglected F-1", but it looks like the same display.

The photo below is at USSRC, Huntsville, 2006 . . . I believe that is the same one.

Dave F.

If it's been left that way (or even if it's been cleaned up/restored since) that IS (or was) sad.

Comparing the pictures, it does look like the same place...but the cleaned up and placarded version is more recent as the trees behind it have grown quite a bit.

Good eye on that one Bernard.

Chas

This website is interesting . . .

https://historicspacecraft.com/rocket_engines.html

Dave F.

If Doctor Von Braun could see that engine—he’d probably throw up.

Ummm - I think it’s all cleaned up and inside the Davidson Center at the USSRC now. They are in the process of completely redoing the rocket park.

The Saturn by I-65 in north Alabama had to be demolished recently, as it was structurally unsound - would have broken apart in months after years of neglect. The funny thing is that no one cared until the rocket had to be sent to the scrap heap. Then there was this huge uproar about “saving history”. Too late.

Preserving relics takes money, folks. Have to pony up to save old space hardware, especially given places like the USSRC almost went bankrupt during the pandemic and are still struggling financially.

Thanks Bill for the additional info and insight.

Is the USSRC a complete and separate entity from Marshall? Seems like I recall hearing that it is. If so, do you know whether there has been any discussion about the USSRC becoming the 'official' visitor center for Marshall and, as such, maybe receive some funding from Marshall in that role?

Earl