You Might Want to Know: ICBMs Arriving - V. What Were the Things They Carried?
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V. The Things They Carried In the summer of 1969, we managed to get an astronaut on the moon, and get him back, which was the really nervous part for me. To get the three astronauts to the moon, we’d used a great big rocket we’d built called the Saturn V. It was taller than a football field is long. Having gotten our astronauts to the moon and back and doing it before the Russians managed to do it was very cool. For a while there, it had looked like they’d get there first. They’d beaten us to the first satellite and the first man in orbit and the first ICBM, remember.
You Might Want to Know: ICBMs Arriving - V. What Were the Things They Carried?
You Might Want to Know: ICBMs Arriving - V…
You Might Want to Know: ICBMs Arriving - V. What Were the Things They Carried?
V. The Things They Carried In the summer of 1969, we managed to get an astronaut on the moon, and get him back, which was the really nervous part for me. To get the three astronauts to the moon, we’d used a great big rocket we’d built called the Saturn V. It was taller than a football field is long. Having gotten our astronauts to the moon and back and doing it before the Russians managed to do it was very cool. For a while there, it had looked like they’d get there first. They’d beaten us to the first satellite and the first man in orbit and the first ICBM, remember.