Ronald Costa: We test fired
everything to verify that it
worked the way it should work.
They couldn't test fire it
where they built it.
David Dallmann: This is the
Saturn V rocket,
and this is the third stage.
That's the part that
Douglas built.
That's what puts the whole
vehicle into lunar orbit.
Don Brincka: You couldn't drive
it up any of the highways
because it was just too big.
They came up with the idea
of shipping it up by by boat.
Don: And that was a pretty
significant job to get it
from Courtland to here
because none of the
roads were made for
a vehicle that big.
In the meantime, NASA got
involved with a contractor
to build a special airplane
they call the guppy.
And they used that
from then on.
They'd fly the airplanes
from Huntington Beach to
here, and then from here
to the Cape.
So it worked out real well.
The PBS Summer of Space.
