Power and fury of US Moon rocket

At his office in Washington DC, Allen Needell is staring at four large archive boxes, filled with documents and correspondence.

The contents of these boxes were accumulated during what Allen describes as the biggest project of his career - "by an order of magnitude".

In the late 1990s, Dr Needell, who is the Apollo curator at the US National Air and Space Museum, began work on a project to restore the last flight-ready Saturn V rocket still in existence.

The Saturn V was the massive launcher used to boost the Apollo astronauts to the Moon.read more
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