Sam Dove is one of the people in charge of getting NASA’s Artemis rocket to the launch pad running the workhorse crawler-transporter 2 at Kennedy Space Center.

Built in the 1906s, NASA’s crawler transporter has carried Saturn V rockets for Apollo, Space Shuttles and is now a key part of getting moon-bound Artemis to the launch pad.

While the crew of Apollo 9 was still orbiting Earth on this day in 1969, preparations were already underway on the ground for the next critical step in the race to the Moon.

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