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...civilians and 3,500 airmen work busily around a futuristic maze: three 135-ft. Atlas gantries on nearly completed pads, three more Atlas pads still being poured, eight Thor pads, 8,000-ft. bases for electronic tracking, a hangar-shaped missile-assembly building and a convenient liquid oxygen (LOX) factory...
...seconds tightened as hundreds of eyes were fixed on the clock. Seven-fifteen (a.m.) . . . T minus 60 seconds ... 55 ... 50 ... 45 ... Said Walsh: "Helium disconnect has dropped; lox vent has closed." Then T minus one. Snapped Walsh: "Mark!" From the blockhouse came the word: "Ignition...
...Lox: liquid oxygen...
...Lox on the Rocks (humor): a stiff drink...
...lead to Cape Canaveral's heavily guarded gates. Security guards check for pink windshield stickers, examine badges, wave the privileged on to their work. Construction workers peel off toward half-finished launching facilities. Others spike off to hangars, laboratories, snack wagons and a hundred separate sites. At the lox plant, they run the machinery that daily chews up a chunk of damp Florida air and transforms it into 75 tons of liquid oxygen...