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Apollo 8 countdown and the giant crawler transporters
Aerospace editor Fred Renaud describes the 12.3 million pound Apollo Saturn V transporters known as crawlers moving 314 miles of the 500 000 mile round trip from Cape Kennedy to the pad. The article covers their slow speed and complex startup procedures and notes the risky mission for Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders.
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Fred Renaud
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Cape Kennedy
Moon
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Bendix Corporation
Frank Borman
James Lovell
William Anders
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