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...strange judicial scene, St. Clair, who earlier had been grinning and sometimes winking at Ehrlichman, was then allowed to question him. "Now those files were made by you on company ... I mean, Government time, is that correct? Is it fair to say that some items on that pad affect the national security? Does your attorney have security clearance...
...group of nonsmoking controls. Six of the marijuana users had lowered sperm counts, and two of them reported that they had become impotent. After abstaining from marijuana for two weeks, several subjects regained normal hormone levels and sexual function. One preferred the pleasures of pot to those of the pad. Despite a potency problem, he declined to give up marijuana...
...bunch of sheep seeing through a gate for the first time. When he showed us one of his rockets, we thought it looked like nothing but a huge cigar-shaped tube, and we didn't believe it could fly. Korolyov took us on a tour of a launching pad and tried to explain how the rocket worked. We were like peasants in a marketplace. We walked around and around the rocket, touching it, tapping it to see if it was sturdy enough. We did everything but lick it. Some people might say that we were technological ignoramuses...
Some of my conversations with Comrade Korolyov made me worry that if war ever came, our enemy might be able to destroy our Semyorka before we could get it into the air. The rocket was fired from a launching pad which looked like a huge tabletop and could easily be detected by reconnaissance planes or satellites in orbit around the earth...
Veterans of the early launches have developed a nostalgia for, well, the good old days of the space age. "It was so freewheeling in the early days," says a onetime NASA engineer. "We made design changes right on the pad and let the home office know about it later. Anything to get the bird away. Now it's all so stylized. It used to be shirtsleeves and sweat. Now it's gray flannel...