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House of Roberts

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7. I'll give you something else to be jealous about.

Reply to Tommy Carcetti (Reply #3)

Wed Apr 1, 2026, 10:10 AM

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When I was in elementary school, NASA would fire up a rocket engine for a Saturn 1B on the test stand out at Marshall Space Flight Center here on Redstone Arsenal. We'd be in class not that far away, and the ground would shake and windows would rattle during the firing. We still are having rocket engine tests now, and some of them last a lot longer than the ones I remember from my youth.

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I'll give you something else to be jealous about. House of Roberts Wednesday #7

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