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From the Hunstville Times:
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Past the three-piece orchestra that's playing soft music, across from the IMAX theater, beyond the tables of hors d'oeuvres, there is a small room at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.

Retired scientists and NASA administrators are filtering into the room about an hour before the second reunion of the Saturn engineers and Apollo astronauts Saturday night.

Among the people here are the last of the 118 scientists from Operation Paperclip, the U.S. Army's code name for securing Germans who specialized in rocketry in World War II.


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