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"Save Apollo 11's launch gantry"
Washington, USA - An appeal from a group of ecologists and nostalgic people in order to restore the launch tower of the legendary space rocket
A sort of melancholy is spreading in the United States for the launch gantry of the Apollo 11 space rocket. The majestic metallic tower (LUT-1, Launch Umbilical Tower), some 380-foot tall, would be dismantled in 1983. Afterwards, it remained abandoned near the Kennedy Space Center at the risk of contaminating the environment of the place due to the loss of toxic substances from its structure. If environmentalists...
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 57976
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency