On July 16, 1969 at 9:31 am EDT, the Florida landscape around the Kennedy Space Center shook as the Apollo 11 mission lifted off on its historic mission to take the first astronauts the Moon. The skyscraper-sized rocket that made this possible is probably the most recognizable machine of the 20th century, but the building of the Saturn V wasn't that simple. Its birth is a story of brilliant technical innovation tinged with engineering conservatism, politics, in-fighting, and having to work on a project that no one had more than a hazy conception of until surprisingly late in the day.
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