Among the people of Apollo, it is known simply as the Fire, needing no other label. Twenty years later, after a visitor had questioned him about it, the Fire would still keep Don Arabian from getting to sleep until three in the morning, turning the data over in his mind, trying to make all the pieces fit. Marty Cioffoletti’s voice would still tighten when he remembered having to listen to the tape of the crew’s voices again and again. Some of the men who had been on the consoles would still be unable to talk about it, stopping in mid-sentence. The history of Apollo is divided into two eras,
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