Saturn On Way To Cape
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) HUNTSVILLE (Alabama), August 8 The 75-ton Saturn rocket booster, with which the United States hopes to land on the moon, has begun a 2200-mile, two-week journey by water to Cape Canaveral, Florida. The huge booster left Huntsville at the week-end aboard a converted Navyvessel which will take it along stretches of the Tennessee, Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and the Atlantic Ocean, to the rocket base. • The National Aeronautics and Space Administration hopes to test-fire the booster with two dummy stages on top of it from the cape later this year, although the rocket is not expected to become fully operational until 1965.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29587, 9 August 1961, Page 11
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