What's With the Apollo Milk Stool?

The Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project launches were notable for the stool the Saturn IB rocket launch from. The so-called "milk stool" the Saturn IB launched from was really a clever solution to two rockets having similar parts at different heights off the ground.

For more on the Saturn family of rockets and why the milk stool was a necessary and clever solution to a problem, check out the latest article on Vintage Space over on Popular Science: http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/vintage-space

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