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Old March 25th 13, 02:12 AM posted to sci.space.history
Greg \(Strider\) Moore
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Default recovered F-1 engines - which mission?


"Jan Philips" wrote in message
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On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:07:50 -0700 (PDT), bob haller
wrote:

Could they tell from the location?


Not EXACTLY, the area is littered with all sorts of debris from a
lifetime of launches.


Yes, but we are talking only about Saturn F-1s. Is the location of
where each SI-C went down known accurately enough to tell which ones
have been found?


A 30 second search shows Apollo 15 was launched more southerly than previous
launches.

And since the launch depended on where the Moon was in its orbit I have to
guess there's some variation (on the scale of miles) between where the
impact points were, but I don't know how much stuff might drift and how
accurately the impact spot was tracked.




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