Last summer, I was lucky enough to be taken on a behind-the-scenes tour at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. As a life-long space nerd, this was an amazing experience and let me see in person several sites that I had only read about before. One of those was Building 4572 or the “T-Tower”. I originally thought that this had been built specifically as a test stand for the Saturn rockets of the Apollo program but, on reading some more, apparently it was built in the mid 1950s to test Jupiter missiles and then repurposed for Apollo. It was later used to test Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters. It’s now decommissioned but has an entry in the National Register of Historic Places.
For the technically inclined...