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The Apollo Spacecraft Facility Verification Vehicle (S/C FVV) is a mockup of spacecraft hardware comprised of a Launch Escape Tower, Command Module, Service Module, and Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter. Originally used to verify launch complex ground support systems, it was mated to the Saturn V 500-F, and so was the pattern for all the model kits of the Saturn V. After being used to checkout Apollo 4, 6, and 8, it was placed in the visitors area of the VAB (no longer open) in Oct. 1968. In Dec. 1971 the S/C FVV was moved to the present Visitors Complex, standing upright (only 6 feet shorter than the entire Mercury-Redstone!) Later, it was mated with the last remaining Saturn-IB booster and laid horizontally. In 1993 it underwent a refurbishing where a new Service Module replaced the badly corroded original. |
Location: KSC Visitors Complex
Image by: Jim Gerard |
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