They managed to complete most of the maneuvers in the flight plan, and the spacecraft was returned safely to earth, but there remained two sobering, unassailable facts: The pogo in the first stage was so severe that a crew might have been injured, had to abort, or both; and three separate engines had failed. Later that day, in the early afternoon, Martin Luther King was shot and killed as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, and the United States moved from a time of troubles to one of domestic crisis. The rest of the world paid little attention to the Apollo 6 flight one way or
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