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in the 1960s NASA built a pair of launch

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complexes suitable for the needs of the

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world's first moon rocket the Saturn

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five and it's Apollo spacecraft built up

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more than 40 feet above the surrounding

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lands the pyramid base of launch complex

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39a required months to sculpt by massive

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earth moving machines before concrete

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was poured to hold it in place

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Engineers next cut a 571 foot long fifty

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eight foot wide flame trench through the

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middle of the mound to deflect the

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exhaust of the seven and a half million

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pounds of thrust from Saturn five rocket

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sliff ting off for the moon the first

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mission to land astronauts on the moon

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lifted off from pate in July 1969 Apollo

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11 kept the promise made by President

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John F Kennedy that we would go to the

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moon by the end of the decade when Neil

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Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot

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on the lunar surface those heroes were