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September 20, 2013 12:51 pm PDT
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Inside NASA's rubberroom
If a Saturn V rocket had ever exploded on the launchpad, it would have been a catastrophic event. NASA engineers once calculated that the resulting fireball would have been 1048 feet wide and would have hit temperatures as high as 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/tWzvsisU1zg/story01.htm
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