April 25, 2024
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Who Said That?
Florida's quote of the day
" It was stressful. It was coming to work in the dark, and leaving in the dark. Softball was always an outlet for us."
-- Joe Lackovich
It was April 1968 when a young engineer from St. Louis arrived at Cape Canaveral to join the frenetic activity of the Apollo space program.
Joe Lackovich would have roles that year in preparation for Apollo 7 and then Apollo 8 — which sent men into lunar orbit.
"Being able to work on the Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the moon, that was tremendous," Lackovich recalls. "I looked at the module that they sat in. I got inside the rocket."
Now, 48 years later, Lackovich, 71, has finally retired.
Read more at the Orlando Sentinel.
