It's time to say goodbye to the Saturn 1B welcome center rocket. Preliminary work to remove the rocket has begun. NASA has been removing the engines from the rocket this week, according to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
Preliminary work is underway in dismantling the Saturn 1B rocket at the north Alabama welcome center on Interstate 65 near the Tennessee state line.
The taking down of the rocket got final clearance in recent weeks when the office of Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said the state’s monument preservation law would not be an obstacle, according to Wes Kelley, chair of the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission. The commission oversees the rocket center, which has been tasked by NASA to take down the rocket.
The legislature in 2022 allocated almost $1 million to the rocket center to help fund “rocket removal.” Another bill passed by the legislature earlier this year said that if the rocket is taken down, the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs willKelley also said the rocket center had asked for bids to “disassemble the unit and put it on the ground.”
NASA and the rocket center have said the rocket – after being exposed to outdoor environmental elements for more than four decades – is beyond repair and any efforts to refurbish it would exceed $7 million.
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