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The Launch of Apollo 11 (from The Dream of spaceflight)

November 22, 2013 By Wyn Wachhorst Leave a Comment

Poised on the launch pad and towering thirty-six stories against the stars, the Apollo-Saturn rocket seemed unearthly in the wash of floodlight, glowing icy silver-white, like the moon above it.  A half-million pilgrims had made their way to the mosquitoed marshlands of Florida's Merritt Island, … [Read more...]

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