The first-ever rollouts of the Saturn V and SLS occurred 56 years apart.
The first Apollo Saturn V, the 500-F facilities demonstrator, and NASA's first Space Launch System rocket roll out from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida 56 years apart. Both moves were in preparation for propellant loading tests on their respective launchpads.That was how NASA described the first rollout of a Saturn V rocket 56 years ago.
built for the Apollo program, both the SLS and earlier Saturn V each represented a new effort to send humans to the moon, though neither of the inaugural vehicles were built to achieve that goal., designated 500-F, was a mockup assembled to test ground facilities. Its first stage had only one mock engine out of the five that would power the later moon-bound rockets. The vehicle was able to be loaded with propellants, however, and that fueling was demonstrated as 500-F stood on Pad 39A.
Similarly, the Artemis 1 SLS was making the overnight journey to Pad 39B for a"wet" dress rehearsal, including being fueled and put through a full countdown . Unlike 500-F, though, the first SLS will not be retired afterward. It will return to the VAB to be studied and serviced so it can launch the
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