Many of us think we know the vehicles that took us to the moon nearly 39 years ago: the mighty Saturn V, the Apollo Command and Service Module, and the Lunar Module. Yet, these marvelous machines did not spring fully formed into the minds of engineers at NASA and its contractors. W0hen President Kennedy set the nation on a course to the moon in his electrifying speech in 1961, there were a lot of different ideas as to the best way to get there.
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