Apollo by C A Murray & C B Cox

Author:C A Murray & C B Cox [Murray, C A & Cox, C B]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780976000808
Publisher: South Mountain Books
Published: 2004-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

A.S.-501, which the newspapers called Apollo 4, made the headlines the next day. But there was no way that the papers could convey what men like Von Braun, Petrone, Rigell, and Corn understood. Only a few years earlier, they had been hesitantly trying, often failing, to launch rockets with a single, small engine in each stage. Today, in its first trial, they had launched a rocket the size and weight of a Navy destroyer, carrying eleven new engines, new fuels, new pumps, new technology of all kinds, and had done it perfectly. There was simply no way to explain it. They could recite how heavy it was and how powerful and how many parts it contained, but that didn’t capture it. “We fought that thing for seventeen days,” Ike Rigell said, remembering the tortuous C.D.D.T. “And then on launch day it worked. It worked beautiful.” Thinking back on it, Rigell, a matter-of-fact man not given to exaggeration, could only shake his head and say, “It was fantastic. Unbelievable.” It was that, and more. A.S.-501 had opened the way to the moon.

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