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Ep.01 ‘We choose to go’

13 Minutes to the Moon

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The Saturn Five Rocket

The saturn five was the largest rocket ever launched successfully. The vehicle weighed six and a half million pounds, which means when it launched, it was just barely moving to get off the launch pad. Each on generating a million and a half pounds of thrust for a total of seven and ahalf million pounds. You could fit an entire apollo space craft inside each of those nozzles. So what was the experience of a satun five launch for the astronauts who flew on it? Three to one. Apollo elevens, michael collins and then charlie juke, who walked on the moon in 19 70, twopollorube. When allan Shepard became first man

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