posted 12-08-2004 09:16 AM               

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Four men and one woman, all around 90 years old, gather in a conference room and pour themselves coffee — rocket fuel for the last of the original rocketeers.
Just outside, in Rocket Park, looms some of their handiwork: Gemini and Mercury rockets, a lunar lander and a giganticrusting Saturn V from the Apollo program.
These five people were among 118 German rocket scientists bundled up and brought to the USA after World War II. ...

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