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" I love the smell of rocket exhaust in the morning. Those living nearby the John C. Stennis space center in the 60&amp;#039;s did not, apparantly, according to this historical update on the NASA facility that arguably has the most fun: testing rocket boosters. An excerpt describing the testing of the Saturn V moon rocket&amp;#039;s F-1 engines: &amp;quot;When the five-engine cluster of F-1 engines was test-fired for the first time March 3, 1967, windows shattered in nearby communities. The engines gave the booster a total thrust of 7.5 million pounds, taking the vehicle to a height of about 36 miles and to a speed of about 6,000 mph.&amp;quot; That is some serious giddyup. \u2014Benjamin Chertoff he first S-II-T booster to be tested at Stennis Space Center is installed on the A-2 Test Stand. NASA "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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