Then it ponderously moved its 6,000-ton cargo through the door, over a concrete apron that had been slicked down with 200 Ibs. of soap, and onto an eight-lane rock-paved “crawlerway” that led ...

Shutterstock Kennedy Space Center, Florida A million spectators gathered around Florida’s Space Coast on July 16, 1969, all eyes fixed on Launch Complex 39A. At 9:32 a.m., the Saturn V rocket carrying ...