Forty years ago today (May 25, 1961) U.S. president John Kennedy announced [ http://history.nasa…] the goal of landing Americans on the Moon by the end of the decade. Kennedy's ambitious speech triggered [ http://www.wamu.org…] a nearly unprecedented peacetime technological mobilization and one result was the Saturn V [ http://www.hrw.com/…spacerace/SpaceRace/ sec300/sec380.html ] moon rocket [ http://kids.msfc.na…]. Its development directed by rocket pioneer Wernher Von Braun, the three stage Saturn V stood [ http://www.hq.nasa.…] over 36 stories tall. It had a cluster of five first stage [ http://grin.hq.nasa…] engines fueled by [ http://users.commke…] liquid oxygen and kerosene which together were capable of producing 7.5 million pounds of thrust. Giant Saturn V rockets ultimately hurled [ http://www.hq.nasa.…contents.html ] nine Apollo missions [ http://history.nasa…] to the Moon and back again [ http://www.literatu…round-the-moon/ ] with six landing on the lunar surface [ http://www.hq.nasa.…]. The first landing, by Apollo 11 [ http://history.nasa…introduction.htm ], occurred on July 20, 1969 achieving Kennedy's goal. Bathed in light, this Saturn V [ http://www.apollosa…] awaits an April 11, 1970 launch on the third lunar landing mission, Apollo 13 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…].
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Forty years ago today (May 25, 1961) U.S. president John Kennedy announced [ http://history.nasa…] the goal of landing Americans on the Moon by the end of the decade. Kennedy's ambitious speech triggered [ http://www.wamu.org…] a nearly unprecedented peacetime technological mobilization and one result was the Saturn V [ http://www.hrw.com/…spacerace/SpaceRace/ sec300/sec380.html ] moon rocket [ http://kids.msfc.na…]. Its development directed by rocket pioneer Wernher Von Braun, the three stage Saturn V stood [ http://www.hq.nasa.…] over 36 stories tall. It had a cluster of five first stage [ http://grin.hq.nasa…] engines fueled by [ http://users.commke…] liquid oxygen and kerosene which together were capable of producing 7.5 million pounds of thrust. Giant Saturn V rockets ultimately hurled [ http://www.hq.nasa.…contents.html ] nine Apollo missions [ http://history.nasa…] to the Moon and back again [ http://www.literatu…round-the-moon/ ] with six landing on the lunar surface [ http://www.hq.nasa.…]. The first landing, by Apollo 11 [ http://history.nasa…introduction.htm ], occurred on July 20, 1969 achieving Kennedy's goal. Bathed in light, this Saturn V [ http://www.apollosa…] awaits an April 11, 1970 launch on the third lunar landing mission, Apollo 13 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…].
