From the top of the S-IC Test Stand, the view to the southwest includes the Wheeler Wildlife Refuge.
IBM veteran Luke
Talley, who worked on the Instrument Unit and who volunteers
at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center via
the Emeritus Docents
program, relayed an experience regarding S-IC test firings.
He explained how the flame deflector
discharged into the Wheeler Wildlife Refuge. Between the roar and the
percussion, it was quite an experience for all who witnessed. Among the
witnesses were the many skunks who inhabited the Refugue. Unlike the human
observers, the skunks didn't know what was going on, and the skunks had but one
way to react to the unknown, so the entire area stank of skunk for days after
the test.
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