Did you know …
That the Saturn V rockets used to launch Apollo spacecraft into orbit were powerful enough to lift a small town? It’s true!
The closest the Saturn V ever came to employing this functionality was at the launch of the Apollo 14 mission. At the last minute, the booster rocket was tethered to a small town—the town lift was to be a secondary objective the the mission.
Things looked promising during the initial stages of the launch but, unfortunately, the mailbox to which the lower end of the tether was affixed ripped out of ground and flew away with the rocket. A lot of good Americans lost their mail that day, and the experiment was never again attempted.
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