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8: No Such Thing As A Swear Word On The Moon
This was at Cape Kennedy and they had a bit of a wildlife problem there, because the launch pad is actually in the middle of a nature reserve. One of the problems they had was with woodpeckers on the big fuel tanks on…
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If they're going to retrieve any of the booster rockets that land in the Banana River, which has apparently the largest refuge of manatees in America, they now use water jets as opposed to propellers so that they don't…
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He was employed to ride the escalator — it was the first escalator that had been installed on the London Underground. People were always really scared of new inventions. He was employed by the Department of Transport to…
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He was employed by the Department of Transport to ride up and down the escalator and show people that it was safe. The idea was, even a one-legged man can get up and down this safely — you're probably going to be fine,…
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