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=== Sources === {{refbegin}} * {{NASA}} * {{cite book |last=Beschloss |first=Michael R. |author-link=Michael Beschloss |editor1-last=Launius |editor1-first=Roger D. |editor2-last=McCurdy |editor2-first=Howard E. |title=Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership |date=1997 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |location=Champaign, IL |isbn=0-252-06632-4 |lccn=96051213 |chapter=Kennedy and the Decision to Go to the Moon |ref=Beschloss}} * {{cite book |last=Bilstein |first=Roger E. |others=Foreword by [[William R. Lucas]] |title=Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles |url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4206/contents.htm |access-date=August 1, 2013 |series=The NASA History Series |orig-year=Originally published 1980 |date=1996 |publisher=NASA |location=Washington D.C. |oclc=36332191 |id=NASA SP-4206 |ref=Bilstein }} * {{cite book |last1=Brooks |first1=Courtney G. |last2=Grimwood |first2=James M. |last3=Swenson |first3=Loyd S. 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