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                               2019 November 9
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                              Saturn the Giant
                            Image Credit: [3]NASA

   Explanation: On May 25, 1961 U.S. president [4]John Kennedy announced
   the goal of landing astronauts on the Moon by the end of the decade. By
   November 9, 1967 [5]this Saturn V rocket was ready for launch and the
   first full test of its capabilities on the [6]Apollo 4 mission. Its
   development directed by rocket pioneer Wernher Von Braun, the three
   stage [7]Saturn V stood over 36 stories tall. It had a cluster of five
   first stage engines fueled by liquid oxygen and kerosene which together
   were capable of producing [8]7.9 million pounds of thrust. Giant Saturn
   V rockets [9]ultimately hurled nine [10]Apollo missions to the Moon and
   back again with six landing on [11]the lunar surface. The first landing
   mission, [12]Apollo 11, achieved Kennedy's goal on July 20, 1969.

    Watch: the November 11 Transit of Mercury [13]from Earth or [14]from
                                   Space.
                    Tomorrow's picture: WISE Young Stars
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References

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   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1911/s67-50903_saturnVlaunch.jpg
   3. https://www.nasa.gov/
   4. http://history.nasa.gov/moondec.html
   5. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/this-week-in-nasa-history-first-launch-of-saturn-v-nov-9-1967.html
   6. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1967-113A
   7. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-350/ch-3-1.html
   8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V
   9. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/contents.html
  10. http://history.nasa.gov/apollo.html
  11. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/
  12. http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/introduction.htm
  13. https://earthsky.org/tonight/transit-of-mercury-on-november-11-2019
  14. http://sdoisgo.blogspot.com/2019/10/mercury-transit-november-11-2019.html
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  17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html
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  19. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search
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  21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
  22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html
  23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
  24. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=191109
  25. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191110.html
  26. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
  27. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/
  28. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html
  29. http://www.astro.umd.edu/
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  32. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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