Found myself looking at this photo and thought "wow, it looks like the full Saturn V stack, set up on top of the crawler-transporter, just BARELY clears the VAB door." So I'm curious as to how much clearance there actually was. Did a bit of sleuthing, and came up with 398 ft as the total height of the Saturn V stack and 20 ft as the height of the crawler-transporter, giving a total stack-on-crawler height of 418 ft. The VAB door is 456 feet high, suggesting that the full Saturn V stack would have cleared it by 38 feet. The photo is low-angle, so it could just be an optical illusion, but it looks if you zoom in on the top of the launch tower like it's a lot less than 38 feet of clearance. Can anyone shed light on what I might be missing/failing to account for?
Submitted November 30, 2017 at 12:12PM by Philmarlow http://ift.tt/2AsDYQU
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