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Site of Former RL10 Test Stand | ||||||||||||
Marshall Space Flight Center once had a test stand suitable for altitude-testing RL10 rocket engines. It was Building 4710, or the "Liquid Hydrogen Familiarization Facility." It seems that the RL10 test stand is completely gone: None of the buildings appear to remain, and (looking at the aerial view) the asphalt bears no scars which might hold clues to location's former use (although it appears that a cluster of high-pressure gas cylinders remain). The facility was surrounded by a comma-shaped berm, which also remains to this day (although it is heavily overgrown with trees). Today Buildings 4745 and 4745-1, comprising the sandblast facility, are located on the site. | ||||||||||||
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