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Overall walk-around of the holddown fitting, diagonal tubes, and restraint bracket.

Picture 2 of 3.

The Saturn IB would both be supported by the holddown fitting while sitting on the pad and be held down to the pad until the computers verified that all engines had come up to thrust.

 
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Time picture taken Tue Jul 29 16:12:58 2008
Location picture taken Apollo Gallery
Hall of Space
Kansas Cosmosphere
Hutchinson, KS
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