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Todd Halvorson writes about a little known feature of the Apollo Saturn launch pads: ‘Rubber Room’ built by NASA for the emergency that never came: Mysterious facility there to protect astronauts, but instead fostered its own legend<\/em> – Florida Today<\/a><\/p>\n

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Todd Halvorson writes about a little known feature of the Apollo Saturn launch pads: ‘Rubber Room’ built by NASA for the emergency that never came: Mysterious facility there to protect astronauts, but instead fostered its own legend – Florida Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-8M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":212,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=212","url_meta":{"origin":544,"position":0},"title":"NASA fires F-1 engine gas generator","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As part of the SLS archeology project, a group\u00a0 of NASA engineers have refurbished a gas-generator , essentially a separate rocket engine used to drive pumps for the main engine, used for the famous Saturn F-1 engines and fired it several times. 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