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Historic Apollo footage discovered on 'œThe Tennis Shoe Test'

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Authors Alan Lawrie and Robert Pearlman wrote on the CollectSpace.com website about an interesting day in 1966 for NASA engineers.           


The engineers at the Kennedy Space Center were working on the first fully-assembled (but non-working) Saturn V moon rocket at its Vertical Assembly Building launch facilities in Florida, and they decided to perform a test on the rocket.

I just wanted to let our iTWire readers read this article “Untold Apollo: How tennis shoes and tug-of-war toppled the mighty Saturn V” and watch the video.

See what happens!

You’ll need to download the free Apple QuickTime player for the video if you don’t have it already. [QuickTime website: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/]

The article appears here: http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-010708a.html.

I hope you enjoy the article and video!