This is a pre test photo of a full scale separation test conducted at El Toro, CA in November, 1963.
The photo shows the installation of the Linear Shaped Charge Assembly on a test fixture. The fixture simulates the structure of the two separation planes on the Saturn 2nd stage. The LSC Assembly was later tested extensively in environmental conditioned test set-ups, but in a straight line. One of the objectives of this test was to evaluate the feasibity of installing the LSC assembly in the manner shown in the photo*. The reel of LSC was mounted on a wheeled cart and rolled around the simulated interstage, completing attachments along the way. This same method was later used at the VAB (Kennedy Space Center) for LSC installion on flight vehicles. *LSC hold-down clips were not yet availablefor the test.
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