SIVB COMPONENTS
Sheet One
Wire Harness Assembly and Electronic System Testing
 Plug connector is primed for resin backing. |
 Connector is placed in holding tool. |
 Resin is applied into plug connector to secure wires. |
 Technicians assembling wire harness for SIVB 506. |
 Technicians assembling wire harness for SIVB 506. |
 Production acceptance testing area. |
 Propellant utilization system being tested. |
 Test of Fuel Tank Pressurization Control Module at Atomics International, Canoga Park, CA. |
 Specimen under test. |
 |Close up of test specimen. |
Auxiliary Propulsion System,
SIVB Retro-Rocket Motors
& Aft Skirt Hydrogen Burner
Testing
 Technicians working on APS modules in the A45 Maintenance and Assembly building (July, 1967). |
 Storage, modification and check-out of SIVB APS modules in the Maintenance and Assembly building. |
 APS module approaching the Gamma Site for reinstallation and firing. |
 APS module is removed from Gamma Test Cell III. |
 Smaller crane lifts APS module onto handling fixture. |
 APS module is placed in protective container at Alpha I, site III. |
 APS unit installed on shaker unit at Alpha I, site III. |
 APS on shaker unit at Alpha I, site III. |
 APS on shaker unit in tangential axis at Alpha I, site III. |
 APS on shaker unit at Alpha I, site III. |
 Technician in protective suit examines APS unit during leak check after vibration test at Alpha I, site III. |
 APS installed in "thrust axis" on the M-B vibration unit. |
 APS during "burp firing" at Gamma Test Cell III. |
 APS during horizontal "burp firing" at Gamma Test Cell III. |
 Thiokol control center, Elkton Maryland. |
 Retro-rocket motor is installed in Thiokol test cell (1967). |
 Effects of combustion on motor liner. |
 Retro-rocket motor nozzle. |
 SIVB 505 LH2/O2 burner is installed on edge of thrust structure. |
 SIVB 505 LH2/O2 burner installed. |