Saturn V Traditional Cache
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Easy park n' grab, but watch for Muggles!
Just a bit of wow info from a space geek. The Saturn V rocket was the largest, heaviest, most powerful vehicle ever launched. This three-stage behemoth was 363 feet tall, 33 feet in diameter and weighed 6,200,000 pounds. The first stage's 5 Rocketdyne F-1 engines had a combined thrust of 7,648,000 pounds-force. An average mission used the rocket for only 20 minutes. It remains the only launch vehicle to ever transport human beings beyond low Earth orbit. It was developed by NASA for the Apollo program under the direction of Wernher Von Braun and Arthur Rudolph at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where a full-size standing replica, built in 1999, can be seen at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. Another Saturn V, composed of test stages not meant for flight, resides in one of the museum buildings, the Davidson Center for Space Exploration. Two other displays were constructed from unlaunched components at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A total of 24 astronauts were launched to the Moon in the Saturn V, three of them more than once, in the four years spanning December 1968 through December 1972. The final launch of a Saturn V carried the Skylab space station into low Earth orbit in 1973. NASA launched 13 separate Saturn V rockets, all successful without loss of crew or payload.
The Rocket truck stop is located at the junction of U.S. 36 and U.S. 24. It is busy most of the time, so high muggle activity is noted here. You are looking for a micro, should be easy to avoid most muggles at GZ. Please replace exactly as found so that the cache is less visible to truckers. The Rocket has a large, firm, flat, graveled parking area. While it would be POSSIBLE for a wheelchair to approach the cache, it might be difficult, hence the 1.5 terrain rating. There is no need to cross any fence!
Congrats to awanderer on the FTF!
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