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N.,TIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
MANNEDSPACECRAFT Houston
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483-5111 December 27 1970
RELEASED AT MA_RS_%L_ SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
A Saturn Workshop will be shipped from the McDonnell Douglas
Astronautics Co. facility at Huntington Beach_ Calif., Dec. 4 to the
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston_ Te×as_ for extensive ground
tests.
This workshop is a _round test version of one which will be used
in the Skylab program to accommodate teams of three astronauts for stays
up to 56 days in earth orbit. The space agency plans to launch the Skylab
cluster with a Saturn V vehicle in 1972.
Called a "dynamic test article/' the workshop model will undergo
a series of tests at MSC to verify its bending and vibration characteristics.
McDonnell Douglas technicians loaded the workshop aboard the Point
Barrow for shipment to the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans_ La.
The Point Barrow is scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on Dec. 17.
Kennedy Space Center.
The workshop will be loaded aboard a NASA barge at Miehoud for
shipment on Dec. 30 to Houston. It is scheduled to arrive at the Houston
port on Jan. 6.
The workshop model is a Saturn S-IVB stage converted by McDonnell
Douglas_ manufacturer of ';he flight workshop, for its ground role. The
structure was formerly the third (S-IVB) stage on the Saturn V facility
vehicle used to checkout assembly and ground test equipment at the NASA-
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