The appointment at Hughes Space Systems on Imperial Highway in Los Angeles was about a TV camera to look at rocks once it’s parent the Surveyor soft landed on the moon. Somehow in those blurry images transmitted live from the Sea of Tranquility in 1969 the magnitude of that task was shown. Surveyor appeared once more for me in a calendar given out by United Technologies Government Products group to promote the use of the RL-10 rocket engine they produced and which carried the Centaur and Surveyor on their way to the moon. The image here is of the base of the Saturn V rocket which lifted the Apollo capsules and their Lunar Landers, Lunar excursion modules, and Lunar orbiters to the moon 239,000 miles away. The five kerosene and liquid oxygen fueled Rocketdyne F-1 engines that supplied the thrust are on the right here. This rocket was left over when Apollo applications was cancelled after launching only one Skylab space outpost after trouble with deploying one of the solar collector wings and tangling up in the sun shield. There were crews sent to Skylab with these boosters minus the lunar stages but the overall project was foreshortened by the problems. The whole concept of a Manned Orbiting Laboratory for the military and a Manned Orbiting Reconnaissance laboratory for NASA was cancelled. One other of these total staged Saturn V’s is at Huntsville, Alabama where the Army’s Redstone arsenal developed the large boosters. This one is in Houston, Texas at the Manned Space Flight Center. My direct contribution to Apollo was the mission analysis to prove that modified KC-135 aircraft could fill in the spaces where no land observatories could download data and communicate with the capsule when it was orbiting the earth and when it was reboosted to the lunar orbital ellipse to make it’s journey to the moon. The hardware for that is at Dayton at the USAF museum outside.