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Curt Newport cannot recall when the idea first occurred to him to consider the possibility of raising Liberty Bell 7 from the ocean floor. “It might have been when I read The Right Stuff, or it could be just something I thought of,” the salvage operator ventured during an interview back in 1986, a full quarter of a century after the loss of Gus Grissom’s spacecraft. All he knew back then was that it had sunk in very deep water and that any recovery effort would be an incredibly difficult task.1
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Burgess, C. (2014). Epilogue: From the depths of the ocean. In: Liberty Bell 7. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04391-3_8
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