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Club 33 is a private club located in the heart of the New Orleans Square section of Disneyland.
               Originally maintained as a secret feature of the theme park, the entrance of the club was formerly
               located next to the Blue Bayou Restaurant at "33 Royal Street" with the entrance recognizable by
               an ornate address plate with the number 33 engraved on it.
               [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_33]

               Although I believe it was Stanley Kubrick who was given the job of directing the faked Apollo Moon
               landings, Walt Disney had an equally important role as he prepared the world to accept the fantasy
               of man traveling to other heavenly bodies to establish his dominion. Walt Disney, along with many
               others,  did  what  Edward  Bernays  stated  could  be  accomplished  through  the  skilled  use  of
               propaganda. They succeeded in “puff(ing) up a nobody into a great man.” They built the myth of
               Wernher Von Braun to such an extent that people believed NASA when they said this German
               engineer had taken a failed rocket and turned it into the most capable rocket in human history.

               Von Braun and crew would perfect in a few months “the biggest, most powerful, and most reliable
               rocket the world had ever seen - and has not seen since.” According to NASA, the Saturn V which
               had been consistently unstable in the hands of Rocketdyne’s engineers, would have all of its issues
               resolved in short order under the guidance of their German wunderkind. Not having achieved a
               single successful launch in the previous five years, it would prove flawless once NASA took control
               of the rocket’s development. The Saturn V would literally go from zero to hero. And with a perfect
               track record as the world’s mightiest and most reliable heavy lift rocket, NASA would promptly
               retire the Saturn V after the Apollo Moon missions, and then spend nearly ten years and billions of
               dollars developing an entirely new rocket system to be used with the Space Shuttle. The new rocket
               system would be less powerful, less reliable, and limit NASA to lifting payloads no greater than
               50,000 pounds into space for the next forty years.

               Only now, nearly fifty years later, does NASA have on the drawing board a new heavy lift rocket that
               will meet or exceed the capacity of the Saturn V. The Space Launch System (SLS) calls for a new
               rocket to be ready by 2018 which will be capable of lifting 70 tons into low earth orbit. That is little
               more than half of the Saturn V’s 130 ton capacity, but the SLS will be scaled up over time until it
               can lift 130 tons into space.
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