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[i]McCool was an original member of the Marshall staff when the NASA center in Huntsville, Ala., was created in 1960, and he worked on the Saturn V rocket's propulsion system and the Skylab mission that used Saturn V to launch America's first space station. He managed the space shuttle propulsion program when it was a $1 billion line item in NASA's budget every year. "I did learn a lot from some of the teachers we had like von Braun and the German team and what they allowed us to do," McCool said. "And I carried that over." "Flying to the moon and Mars is hard," McCool said. "It takes leadership. Leadership (for Apollo) came from (President) Kennedy, but the other part was von Braun. He's the one that said we can beat 'em to the Moon, and he did that before Al Shepard flew."[/i]
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