The Mobile Launcher includes the Launch Umbilical Tower and the Mobile Launcher Platform, although the MLP was not refered to as such until the Shuttle era. For ease of reference and division of photo galleries, we'll use the LUT and MLP as separate subjects.Dimensions of Mobile Launcher Platform
Dimensions of Hold Down arms
- Length: 160 feet
- Width: 135 feet
- Height: 25 feet
- Height of pedestal mounts: 22 feet
- Exhaust opening: 45 feet square
- Early photo of ML before completion, from NASA pub."Moonport"
- Drawing of top of MLPThis one's kind of rough, I'll clean it up later.
Tail Service Masts
- 9 foot 9 inches long, 6 foot 4 iches wide, 10 foot 5 inches high
- Drawing of internals of Hold down arm from NASA pub. "Moonport"
- Photo of Hold down arm from "Moonport" It is missing the blast shield on top
There were three of these connected to the base of the S-IC. I don't have the dimensions yet.
Drawing of Tail Service Mast from "Moonport"
Copyright 1997, 1998 by John
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