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[i]At the end of the crew’s remarks, someone said that the crew and their wives would be willing to stay up on the dais for a few minutes to sign some autographs. Well, that was a big mistake! All of a sudden, this rather sophisticated and well-dressed group of 400 or so, slowly—then quickly—stormed the dais with their programs in hand. In fact, the program even had space marked for autographs on the back page! Here were people who lived with the Space Program around Houston every day—and some of them actually lived among the astronauts in Clear Lake City and Nassau Bay. Nevertheless, this large group of people suddenly became possessed with the need to shove their way up to the dais and get those autographs of the Apollo 11 crew and their wives.” I will admit to being one of those “possessed” people that afternoon. “I politely” shoved my way through the now scary elite of Houston society, and finally got the autographs of at least the three crewmembers on my program from that evening. I don’t think any of the planners of this sophisticated affair ever dreamed that the autograph session would turn out to be more or less out of control.[/i]
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