How did NASA ship the Apollo spacecraft and rocket components?

I found this image while putting together my next aircraft slideshow post. To meet President John F. Kennedy’s goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade, NASA needed a faster way of moving components from the Apollo program’s various contractors across the country to Cape Canaveral, Florida than loading these massive parts via ship.

The solution: the Pregnant Guppy. It’s amazing that a plane that large could fly, but it did. Stay tuned for more.