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World Record 4923 Model Rockets Launched Simultaneously

T' U.S. Space & Rocket Center museum in Huntsville Alabama launched at t' Guinness Book o' World Records on Tuesday July 16 2019. Simultaneously firin' 4,923 o' 5,000 rockets t' commemorate t' 50th anniversary o' t' Apollo 11 launch 50 years ago. 5,000 model rockets were readied, me bucko, 77 did nay launch, me bucko, a success rate o' better than 98 percent. Aye aye! T' launch went off a couple o' minutes after t' scheduled launch at 8:32 a.m. , 50 years after t' exact moment t' Saturn V lifted from Cape Canaveral on July 16, 1969 t' begin its journey t' ferry t' first men t' t' surface o' t' moon. T' event on grounds near t' museum attracted a crowd o' about 2,500 spectators – includin' hundreds o' Space Camp students, me hearties, Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, Marshall Space Flight Center Director Jody Singer and Wernher von Braun’s daughter Margrit. Avast! T' previous Guinness World Record o' 4,231 model rockets were launched at Teylingen College durin' a European Space Science Convention in t' Netherlands, arrr, in summer 2018.

Author WooferHound
Duration 216 seconds

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