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Surviving Max Q

My Sweet Family Just Outside the Astronaut Hall of Fame Living on the Space Coast of Florida for more than a decade, you come to appreciate the space program and space exploration more than most.  This community loves their astronauts and the adventure of sending someone or something to space.  It grips everyone's attention and well it should.  It's not unusual back in the day of the space shuttle missions, to find that the world would seemingly take a back seat to launches.  Cars pull over to the side of the highway, people come out of their offices to stand in the parking lot, die hard fans would camp out along the waterways and highways - all for a glimpse of the flame of the afterburners streaking through the sky propelling man and machine into orbit.  It is awe-inspiring! While thousands of people look on in wonder and cheer for their sons and daughters of exploration, the spacecraft itself is enduring nearly impossible conditions.  In every launch, there is a moment