Apollo 5: The final piece of the puzzle – Houston Chronicle

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Apollo 5: The final piece of the puzzle  Houston Chronicle

With the thrilling maiden voyage of the Saturn V rocket now in the books, NASA was back to thinking about a sore subject — the final piece of the lunar puzzle. Both the big rocket and the expanded, more complex crew module had presented myriad challenges. But the trickiest task — and ultimately the most crucial — was building a new sort of contraption that could take a pair of astronauts to the lunar surface and later lift off, leaving its bottom half behind. At that point it would rendezvous with the orbiting portion of the spacecraft for the trip home. It wasn’t hard to imagine the des…

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