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To: COgamer
“i’m no space geek but if they could send one up no worries in the 60s why not now?”

The Saturn V Moon Rocket was a multistage liquid-fuel rocket which was a concept developed by Wernher von Braun and a team of German scientists.

25 posted on 01/20/2008 2:22:51 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Red_Devil 232

To be fair, the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft (and the Shuttle for that matter) were developed by Max Faget (born in British Honduras). And without the spacecraft, the rockets had nothing to send the astronauts up in. The Lunar Module was designed and built by Grumman Aircraft.


76 posted on 01/20/2008 12:37:42 PM PST by AntiKev ("No damage. The world's still turning isn't it?" - Stereo Goes Stellar - Blow Me A Holloway)
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