The Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission has voted to continue its path to take down the Saturn 1B rocket that NASA says has deteriorated beyond the point of restoration. But some are holding out hope for the rocket. 🚀➡️
The Saturn 1B rocket, shown here in January 2023, at the I-65 Alabama welcome center just south of the Tennessee state line has an uncertain future amid continuing deterioration. It appears the NASA rocket located at the north Alabama welcome center on Interstate 65 will be dismantled and removed despite efforts to save it.
Wes Kelley, chair of the ASSEC, said Wednesday the vote by the commission’s business and executive committees charts a final course for the rocket’s demise. Theto refer the matter back to the subcommittees to ensure that the rocket center “makes every reasonable effort” to make sure the rocket could not be salvaged.
“ provided detailed information on the rocket’s structural design and the current condition,” Kelley said. “Both of those, the structural design and the current condition, present complications for further inspection and repair. So given the constraints of unpredictable costs, contracting requirements, time and safety, the committees agreed that reasonable efforts have been made to save the rocket.
“As far as the rocket center is concerned, when we look at the priorities that we have, which are significant with the other rockets and artifacts and infrastructure that were charged with, that amount of uncertainty is difficult to just jump off and go for it.”Referring to Butler’s bill that’s now law, Thornton said, “I do believe we have law … that asks the question, Is the condition of that rocket beyond stabilization? And that has not been answered.
“The preferred timeline was always to do it when the welcome center went under renovation,” he said. “That happened a little bit faster than we expected it to happen. But that was always what I viewed as an ideal timetable, to do it while the welcome center was under construction.”
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