Had there been men on board Apollo 6, the crew probably would have aborted the mission during the pogo, when they would have been so violently banged around that they couldn’t have operated the spacecraft. If the pogo hadn’t happened, Charlesworth probably would have had the crew abort when the two engines on the second stage shut down. It was all right for Wolf to wait and see what happened with an unmanned vehicle, but it would have been dangerous to do so with a crew on board. It was in this context that, shortly thereafter, George Low decided that the next launch of the Saturn V should
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