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So it didnt quite make it so it didnt quite make it to the moon but it did get to the mississippi. This is whats left of the saturn 5 rocket. Nasa designed the boosters that sent astronauts to the moon in 1973, but the apollo 19 flight was then canceled. The 40mile move from new orleans took several days. They had to move it at just three miles an hour. Wow, speedy. Im guessing it was planned to go faster than that when they were planning to go to the moon. In mexico, a runner greeted to something much more frightening than your normal marathon obstacles and an angry mother bear. That bear app...

Other passengers have been charged with illegal gun possession. And in another bizarre twist, police say they found the girl cramsey was looking for, and she told them, i dont need to be rescued. Police are still investigating. Gio benitez, abc news, new york. There is a 12pound fugitive jumping around a massachusetts zoo this morning. Dizzy, the monkey is on the run sort of at the forest park zoo in springfield. He escaped from his living area tuesday and has been swinging from a tree ever since. Workers have tried to entice dizzy with food, but nope. Hes not taking the bait. Zoo Officials Sa...

Cowling, what i mean is that theres a tight figtting metal covering and allows the air to flow over more efficiently. So, mark burket of the spanish Swiss Company has designed a very important series of automobile engines in the prewar era. He adapts this to the aeronautical application by taking two of his inline four engines, makes it into a v8, and what he does thats very unique is instead of having separate cylinders attached to the crank case, he casts a row of cylinders out of a solid piece of aluminum. And he has cooling packagssages those aluminum blocks that allows improved cooling an...

Prizewinning flight, but it was the recordbreaking flight. And so they went to the trouble to reinstall the dented engine nozzle on it. Our next stop will be sky lab, and were going to look at that because it is one of the original artifacts on display here since before this Museum Opened. Sky lab is so large, it was brought into the museum before the building was closed out. Now im standing in front of a model of sky lab thats as tall as i am but the real sky lab orbital work station behind me absolutely dwarfs the model and me. It reaches from the floor up into the sky lights of this buildin...

The moon. So its actually fairly flimsy in some areas. The legs are obviously strong and mount for the rocket engine is strong but the craft itself and particularly the crew module or crew cabin was really fairly spartan. It had two windows. Neil armstrong had command of the craft during the final descent to landing. Both of them were standing. They were fully suited in their space suit and they pretty much filled that interior volume in that position with those space suits on. It was not really designed for comfort. It was designed for the purpose of landing, giving the crew an exit so they c...