S-IC-T

S-IC-T is strictly a ground-based test article to be used for integrated testing as the "all systems test stage". The S-IC-T was test fired at a newly built test firing facility, called the B-2 Test Stand (S-IC-T stage), in the west test area. B-2 Test Stand is now part of the Stennis Space Center. A crane was used to install S-IC-T into the B-2 Test Stand. Then the five F-1 engines were installed. The S-IC-T was filled with RP-1 rocket fuel and liquid oxygen (LOX) oxidizer. On the B-2 Test Stand, 18 test firings were completed over almost two years. On April 10, 1965, the first S-IC-T test was to fire one engine for 16.73 seconds. On April 16, S-IC-T fired all five engines for the first time for 6.5 seconds and reached the record 7.5 million pounds (33.36x106N) of thrust for the first time. The 7.5 million pounds of thrust was the power Wernher von Braun specified for Apollo to depart to the moon. On August 5, 1965, a full burn test was done for -minute (150 seconds) on all five engines. Two more -minute full burn test were done. The last test was done in 1967. The test included testing the gimbaled thrust movement on the four outing engines. With the successful tests of S-IC-T, the Apollo program's Saturn V rocket was able to move forward to the next step, SA-501/Apollo 4 with S-IC-1. With all testing completed, Boeing removed the S-IC-T from B-2 Test Stand on March 24, 1967. ==S-IC-T specifications==

S-IC-T specifications: • Height: • Diameter: • Mass: • Fuel, liquid oxygen and kerosene: • Kerosene RP-1: • Liquid oxygen: • Empty: • Intertank: • Five F-1 engines, each 10 tons • Static test of S-IC, first stage of Saturn V Rocket • Power: thrust or about 160 million horsepower, a record ==B-2 Test Stand==

To test S-IC-T a special test stand was built, the B-2 Test Stand, this held the rocket in place under full power test. B-2 Test Stand was designed in 1961 and construction started in June 1961. B-2 Test Stand was completed in spring 1965 at the NASA Mississippi Test Facility and the Pearl River Site, then the NASA Mississippi Test Operations, now known as Stennis Space Center since May 20, 1988 after John C. Stennis. B-2 Test Stand was built to be able to hold down of thrust. S-IC-T was first rocket tested on the B-2 Test Stand. Also on the B-2 Test Stand, was the testing of S-IC-1 (Apollo 4), fired two times; S-IC-2 (Apollo 6) fired once; and S-IC-3 (Apollo 8) fired one time. In 1974, the B-2 Test Stand was reconfigured to test engines, RS-25, for the Space Shuttle program. Next the stand was change to test Russian RD-180 rocket engine in 1998, used on the Atlas rockets. The Space Launch System liquid oxygen feed line was tested in 2014 on stand. A total of 12 S-IC stages were tested on B-2 stand. The first in April 1967 and the last was in October 1970. S-IC 15 was tested but was not used, S-IC 15 is on display at the Stennis Space Center's Infinity Space Center.{{cite web The B-2 Test Stand specifications: • Concrete: • Foundation depth: • Four concrete foundation leg walls: thick and tall • Crane with a boom, lift up to 195 tons • Max height: , including crane, (largest structure in Mississippi at the time) • Base floor space: by • of water a minute for cooling engine exhaust • of water per minute for vibro-acoustic protection • Hold down 53,000 kN (12,000,000 lbf) of thrust, less in current state. ==Gallery==

File:Poseidon_barge_transporting_Saturn_V_S-II.jpg|Poseidon barge transporting a Saturn V S-IC rocket from Alabama to Mississippi. The trip is 1,086.7 miles miles up the Tennessee River and then down the Mississippi River. File:CS-1 Stennis B2 January 12 2020.jpg|A Space Launch System Rocket Core at Stennis prior to being lifted onto the B2 test stand Saturn V vehicle configurations.jpg|Saturn V vehicle configurations with S-IC-T in the static firing stage File:S-IC engines and Von Braun.jpg|Wernher von Braun with the F-1 engines of the Saturn V first stage at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center Stennis Space Center Test Stand.jpg|The B-2 Test Stand holding Space Shuttle component in 1987 B-1 Test Stand (95-625-5).jpeg|B-1 Test Stand in 1995 SSME is Hoisted into the B Test Stand (89-096-29).jpeg|SSME is Hoisted into the B1 Test Stand in 1989 SSME Night Firing (92-810-5).jpeg|SSME Night Firing in 1992 Stennis Space Center Test Stand B.jpg|Stennis Space Center B1 Test Stand blast ports Image:SaturnV S-IC.jpg|Cutaway diagram of the S-IC. Image:apmisc-MSFC-6870792.jpg|Saturn V first stages S-1C-10, S-1C-11, and S-1C-9 at Michoud Assembly Facility. Saturn v schematic.svg|Saturn V schematic F-1 Engine at INFINITY Science Center.jpg|F-1 engine on display at INFINITY science center. Artemis I core stage hot fire test in the B-2 Test Stand (1).jpg|Artemis I core stage hot fire test in the B-2 Test Stand Hot Fire Test of SLS Rocket Core Stage (NHQ202101160005).jpg|Hot Fire Test of SLS Rocket Core Stage ==See also==