[Lockbox]

During the 1960’s when I lived in the Orlando area we would watch the launch on TV and then run out to view the the rocket in the sky with our eyes. The Saturn IB Rocket was a great visual image climbing towards space. But the Saturn 5, WOW you could hear it! 50 miles away and you can hear the rocket!

[alancarp]

Even further than that! I lived in the western suburbs of Orlando then. It was pretty awesome.

[MplsSteve]

“During the 1960’s when I lived in the Orlando area...”

Given what Orlando is like today (traffic, sprawl, crime, etc), it seems like that was a better time and place.

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

During the 1960’s when I lived in the Orlando area we would watch the launch on TV and then run out to view the the rocket in the sky with our eyes.

That is so neat! You lucky dog! Heh.

[Charles Martel]

But the Saturn 5, WOW you could hear it! 50 miles away and you can hear the rocket!

I grew up in eastern New Orleans, in a suburban area that built up largely due to the Michoud Assembly Center's work on the Saturn V rocket. Lots of classmates' fathers worked for NASA or one of the aerospace contractors. When the rocket engine tests were held at the facility in Stennis, Mississippi (about fifty miles east), the low rumble would make my mother's china cabinet rattle.