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Page last updated at 04:47 GMT, Thursday, 16 July 2009 05:47 UK

Unsung hero of the Apollo mission

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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are the most famous people associated with the mission to the moon 40 years ago.

But 400,000 people worked on the project to get the astronauts off the ground. One of them was Stanley Colson, who was a quality control manager for the first phase rocket of Saturn 5.

Now aged 85, and living in a nursing home south of the Kennedy Space Centre, he talked about his recollections of the first launch.

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