“Anyone who sits on top of the largest hydrogen-oxygen fueled system in the world, knowing they’re going to light the bottom, and doesn’t get a little worried, does not fully understand the situation.”

– John Young (1930), after being asked if he was nervous about making the first Space Shuttle flight in 1981.

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