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Going big: catching a Saturn V first stage with a helicopter

25 June 2019

A helicopter company proposed to NASA during the height of the Apollo program to develop a giant helicopter that could not only ferry Saturn V first stages, but also retrieve them in midair. Dwayne Day explores a concept that bordered on the insane.






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