By 11:30am the weather was green and all systems go. At each holding period in the countdown, everyone at Banana Creek breathed a little quicker and more shallowly, waiting. Banana Creek is the site of the museum housing one of three extant Saturn rockets, the power under Apollo. All three stages of the craft hangs suspended from the ceiling high above. The craftsmanship is beautiful.
Outside the museum three miles away sat the Atlantis shuttle, topped up with ~500,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen, ready to blow.
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