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Jack King remembers vividly the seconds following liftoff of Apollo 11: “I’m in the back row in the firing room. I’d said ‘Lift-off,’ and I looked over my shoulder, and that goddamn thing looks like it’s still just sitting there on fire, in a bed of flames!”
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“Kennedy Space Center Story,” p. 125.
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Ward, J.H. (2015). Plus Time and Near Misses. In: Countdown to a Moon Launch. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17792-2_10
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