I was raised in Huntsville and it was great to hear the test firings as a boy. And 45 years later I’ve returned and it’s great to hear ‘em again. Amen to that. I was raised in New Orleans, so the Rocketdyne engines tested at the Stennis, Mississippi facility used to rattle my mother's china cabinet. I think they tested an F1 there a few times, but never all five together. Mostly they worked on the second stage engines (and later, the shuttle engines).
God bless the boys with the pocket protectors and slide rules, every last one of 'em.
I was born and raised in New Orleans. We had a beautiful house on Pearl River on the Mississippi side in Gainesville. We were kind of upset when the government took the land because the house was in the ‘buffer zone’. Of course, the paid us for the land and house then sold the house back to us for $1 but we had to move the house to another lot away from water in Bay St. Louis.
