S-IV-B Saturn stage comes home

This article in the May edition of Discover Magazine details the identification of what was originally thought to be an asteroid as the top stage of the Saturn 5 and Saturn 1-B lunar rockets.

Just like the ones that lifted Skylab and the fictional Skylark mission to orbit in “The Water Cure,” Book 1 of the “People of the Water” Cycle.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/how-a-lost-apollo-rocket-returned-to-earth

S-IVB stage from the Apollo 7 mission’s Saturn 1-B (photo: NASA/JSC)

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W. Keith Brenton is a retired communication specialist, minister and passenger train conductor, living and writing in the historic resort village Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He is the widowed adoptive dad of Matt and Laura, and Pop-Pop to one grandchild. He enjoys drinking the local water, but unfortunately doesn’t look any younger than his actual age.

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