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[i]This is one of the Beta Test Stands, at Sunrise and Douglas in Rancho Cordova, during a S-IVB engine test in the mid 1960's. S-IVB is NASA-speak for the third stage of the Saturn 5 rocket that launched astronauts to the moon. The rocket wasn't going to the moon, until it passed a full systems checkout on the these test stands. Douglas Aircraft built the third stage in southern California, but conducted the tests on Aerojet property in Rancho Cordova. Aerojet engineers built the engine for the Apollo Command Service Module, the spacecraft that orbited the moon.[/i]
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