The Pregnant Guppy, a used Boeing B377 Stratocruiser purchased by John M. Conroy and modified to house the third stage of the Saturn V, takes off from Huntsville, Alabama, for a demonstration flight; the enthusiasm for the successful flight of such a strange and clumsy object is such that even von Braun asks and is granted a chance to fly on the prototype; with this aircraft, NASA can transport the stage to Cape Canaveral in a few hours, compared to several weeks that would have been needed by river transport.
