The thunderous roar that echoed across Huntsville, Alabama, on 10 January wasn’t a rocket launch but something equally momentous: the end of an era. Two massive test stands at Marshall Space Flight Center that helped send humans to the moon collapsed in carefully choreographed implosions, their steel frameworks crumbling in seconds after decades standing as monuments to U.S. spaceflight achievement.
The Dynamic Test Stand and the Propulsion and Structural Test Facility, better known as the T-tower for…
