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Centaur Rocket Lowered into Vacuum Tank
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A Centaur second-stage rocket is lowered into the vacuum tank inside the Space Power Chambers at NASA’s Lewis Research Center. Centaur was to be paired with an Atlas booster to send the Surveyor spacecraft to the moon as a precursor to the Apollo landings. Lewis was assigned responsibility for the Centaur Program after the failure of its first developmental flight in May 1962. Lewis’ Altitude Wind Tunnel was converted into two large test chambers—the Space Power Chambers.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineCentaur Rocket Lowered into Vacuum Tank. NASA/GRC, 1964-03-23. Public domain. ID: GRC-1964-C-68846.
