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...ever, but they are dwarfed by the 310-ft. gantry and 240-ft. umbilical tower of the Saturn C-1 site, which boasts the most elaborate blockhouse in the space business. A second gantry and tower are rising fast, and farther north NASA is buying thousands of acres of beachland, swamp and orange groves for the stupendous equipment needed to launch the great C-5 moon rockets. These intricate monsters, 325 ft. tall, will not be put together on the pads, as is the present practice. The C55 will be assembled...
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