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posted 02-02-2011 10:14 PM               

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A 1995 Sarasota Herald-Tribune article reports on an interview with Jackie Kennedy by Theodore H. White that took place on Nov 29, 1963.

During the interview, she said she wanted several things to memorialize her husband. She said, "I wanted that flame and I wanted Cape Kennedy... All I wanted was his name on just that one booster, the one that would put us ahead of the Russians."

This was probably the Saturn SA-5 rocket. Kennedy visited Cape Canaveral Nov 16, 1963 and Wernher von Braun took him on a tour of the SA-5 when it was on the launch pad. The SA-5 did put the heaviest payload into orbit in early 1964 and took that record from the Russians.

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