MOON FLIGHT STATISTICS
Superlatives abound in the Apollo 8 round - the • moon mission. The Saturn 5 is at present the world’s biggest and most powerful rocket. It is being used in the Apollo 8 mission for the first time in any manned flight, although it has been used for several unmanned tests. In the few minutes of its operation, the Saturn 5 generates enough energy to drive a- car continuously for 34 years at 60 m.p.h.—a total of 18 million miles. It would take 96 railway tank cars to hold enough propellant to full all of the Saturn s’s fuel tanks. The three men on the Apollo 8 flight will be 250 times as far away from the surface of the earth as any man has ever ventured.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31866, 19 December 1968, Page 5
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