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- Our building's shaking! The roar is terrific! The building's shaking! This big glass window is shaking. We're holding it with our hands! Look at that rocket go! Into the clouds at 3,000 feet! The roar is terrific! Look at it going! You can see it. Part of our roof has come in here. (en)
- Technically, managerially, and psychologically, Apollo4 was an important and successful mission, especially in view of the number of firsts it tackled. It was the first flight of the first and second stages of the SaturnV , the first launch of the complete SaturnV, the first restart of the S-IVB in orbital flight, the first liftoff from Complex 39, the first flight test of the BlockII command module heatshield, the first flight of even a simulated lunar module, and so on. The fact that everything worked so well and with so little trouble gave NASA a confident feeling, as Phillips phrased it, that "Apollo [was] on the way to the moon." (en)
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