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[i]Of course, there's no gambling in the Navy but believe you me, everybody's gonna be collecting bets tonight! Headed out at flank speed, thirty-two knots — with a wake a mile long behind us, water breaking over the bow, and we're on our way! Of course, we hear some rumored reports that the Air Force may, possibly, get there before us. Maybe so. But there isn't a man-jack aboard who will go along with this. Reporting from the deck of the John R. Pierce, on its way to pick up Commander Scott Carpenter and his flying machine![/i] (For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut (New York: Harcourt, 2003), 292-93.)
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